Who is it?

Sounds like our old friend J. Edgar Hoover .

Well, that's totally possible. But, not who I had in mind.

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Sounds like our old friend J. Edgar Hoover .

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Would you have also accepted "Karl Rove?"

I call Godwin.

Just about any demagogue, from prehistory to today.

But I'm sure you have some ulterior motive that'll become apparent as soon as you reveal the "right" answer to your question.

That's only cause you're a Nazi.

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I call Godwin.

I expect a retraction and an apology.

Sounds a bit like the last two or three Prez?

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The answer to Round Two's question doesn't really amount to much.

Folks have been attributing those characteristics to our President for years. Who ever said it on 4/4 would simply be the lastest in a long line of people making that comparison.

I expect you to be disappointed.

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I expect a retraction and an apology.

Exactly.

I hope the OP recognizes (somehow I doubt he will) that the current US right-wing propaganda machine (i.e. think tanks, talk radio, fox news, etc.) is using all of these tactics. I appreciate a good argument from an intelligent conservative, but the above tactics are precisely what tells me something evil is going on in the right wing.

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Sounds like Joseph Goebels, Reichminister for Propaganda and National Enlightenment.

The right does have to keep up with the left, after all.

I'm the OP, and what the right wing says, makes a lot more sense to me than what the left wing says. The right wing (such as the tea party) says follow the Constitution, spend less, and keep the government within its means. That's a lot different than what the left says. I don't see the tea party using "all of these tactics".

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Exactly.

I hope the OP recognizes (somehow I doubt he will) that the current US right-wing propaganda machine (i.e. think tanks, talk radio, fox news, etc.) is using all of these tactics. I appreciate a good argument from an intelligent conservative, but the above tactics are precisely what tells me something evil is going on in the right wing.

I don't think he knows what the Godwin call means....

It really bothers me that both sides claim there is no room for compromise...

I was brought up believing politics was the ART of compromise.

Let me get this straight: You called me a nazi, even though I'm Jewish and had a number of relatives - distant, but still relatives - slaughtered by that group.

You call me a nazi even though I'm a dues-paying member of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith.

You call me a nazi even though my father was wounded fighting them and an uncle was killed at Normandy.

You call me a nazi even though you know little about me and with no reason based on anything I've ever posted, let alone any response made to you personally.

Now, will I really continue to be disappointed or will you re-think your position and step back from a flagrant slur?

You're a Nazi, too!

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I don't think he knows what the Godwin call means....

Suppose the left wants to outlaw guns. The right wants to observe and defende the Constitution. I think a compromise would be to repeal any laws requiring government permit to carry concealed or openly, in public or government places. A further compromise would be to repeal the GCA 1968, and the NICS check requirement.

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It really bothers me that both sides claim there is no room for compromise...

I was brought up believing politics was the ART of compromise.

That would not be logical.

More like PT Barnum than Capt. Kirk.

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Captain Kirk?