You have got to be ratfucking KIDDING me!

Oh, goodness. Oh, my gracious...ok, lemme calm down so I can set this up properly. Okay. Ahem. All right. As you may or may not have noticed, as much as I may rip on Bush, his administration, and conservatives in general, one well to which I don't think I've ever gone is the Hitler/Nazi comparison.

As much as I may hate Bush & Co. for the many things they've done to my country, including feeding the Bill of Rights into a shredder, he's not Hitler (for one thing, Hitler could talk), and they're not Nazis.

And anyway, I believe Godwin's Law is not just for Usenet anymore.

So yeah, like I say, I don't play that card.

Except--

When a Republican candidate speaks at a birthday party for Adolph Hitler.

Tony Zirkle, who is seeking the Republican nomination in Indiana's 2nd District, stood in front of a painting of Hitler, next to people wearing swastika armbands and with a swastika flag in the background for the speech to the American National Socialist Workers Party in Chicago on Sunday.

(there's pictures. Believe you me, you gotta see the pictures)

And get this (& if I were you, I wouldn't be drinking soda when I read this next part unless you want to spit your pop of choice all over your keyboard). When asked why he would appear in front of Hitler-loving Socialists, between the two of them, arguably, universally representative of the worst things about the last century, he replied:

"I'll speak before any group that invites me," Zirkle said Monday. "I've spoken on an African-American radio station in Atlanta."

This, children, is what we call False Equivalence...