Just when you thought it was safe to engage in thoughtful political debate ...
... Georgia Rep. Paul Broun, R-Athens, steps into the field and lobs this one:
"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.
"That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."
Really, Paul, do you think that might sound a little silly and off base? Ya think it might sound like someone on the losing side who's grasping at hair-thin straws while raving like a rabid dog that got kicked real hard on Nov. 4?
It doesn't sound like that to these winners, who believe Broun has tapped into an undercurrent of fear with his statements. Yeah, Obama got more than 300 electoral votes because he used fear as a razor-sharp tool to gain the highest office in the nation.
Listen people - fear as a method of controlling the American electorate is over. Broun and others need to realize that it doesn't work anymore.
Sure, he won his re-election hands down. Congrats. Welcome to the minority. You just talked smack about the very president-elect you're going to have to work with if you ever want to accomplish anything in Congress.
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