Brad “Herman” Goehring: “Opening Day for Liberals”

Just when you think you have heard the vilest hate-speech against card-carrying Democrats, hate-speech like Sarah Palin’s “Reload” comment, someone comes out with a topper.

Appropriately surnamed Brad Goehring (the extra “h” appears to be the only thing that separates this man from the commandant of the Luftwaffe), who is actually running for Congress in CA-11, wrote to his Facebook page today the following inflammatory statement:

“If I could issue hunting permits, I would officially declare today opening day for liberals. The season would extend through November 2 and have no limits on how many taken as we desperately need to 'thin' the herd.”

Nice, huh?

All you really need is one fruitcake rightwing fanatic to take this guy seriously, along with what Sarah Palin has spewed, added to what others of their ilk have opined, and we have a national disgrace on our hands, if not outright internecine war.

What it suggests is that these people don’t think that they can win an election fair and square anymore. They have to eliminate their opponents by greasing them.

Then they can win elections again.

In short, what these guys have come up with is a “Final Solution” in their quest to regain political power in this country.

Rush Limbaugh and Godwin’s Law

Speaking of gas bags, now we have that radio entertainer – I could hardly call him a commentator – Rush Limbaugh, comparing the Democratic Party to Hitler’s Nazi Party.

Now anyone who has been on the internets for any period of time knows what happens next.

Rush Limbaugh automatically loses the argument.

This is a result of Godwin’s Law. Proposed by Mike Godwin in 1990, it was initially a discussion on threaded conversations on a Usenet, that as the length of the thread gets longer, the probability of someone being compared to Hitler approaches 1.

Corollaries have been offered, and the law itself has evolved to its present incarnation:

The first person who brings up Hitler or the Nazi Party in a debate automatically loses the argument.

Now Limbaugh might argue that Nancy Pelosi actually used the N-word first, and in that he would be completely wrong – as usual. Pelosi was making the observation that a few of the teabaggers who were invading recent town halls conducted by congressmen were carrying signs bearing swastikas. She wasn’t calling them Nazis, she was indicating that these people are from the radical fringe.

Here’s the discussion of Limbaush’s Nazi-Calling on today’s Hardball on MSNBC.

I like Shrum’s comment about being back on oxycodone and hydrocodone.