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Friday, March 05, 2004
Did too! Here's the lead of
an Associated Press dispatch
that moved yesterday: "Oklahoma Republican Rep. Tom Cole said
Thursday he did not intend to equate a vote against President Bush to
a vote for Adolf Hitler, but stuck by recent comments that a Bush
loss would be a win for Osama bin Laden."
Here is what Cole actually said,
according to his own spokeswoman: "What do you think Hitler would
have thought if Roosevelt would've lost the election in 1944? He
would have thought American resolve was
[weakening]."
Here is what Cole says he really
meant: "What I am saying is that in a time of war, if our commander
in chief is defeated in an election, our adversary will regard that
as a triumph."
By Cole's own admission, he said
that a vote for John Kerry is a vote for bin Laden. (The actual
quote: "[I]f George Bush loses the election, Osama bin Laden
wins the election.") And by any reasonable person's interpretation,
Cole also said that a vote for Kerry is a vote for Hitler.
You may recall that Republican
National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie recently went
bananas when MoveOn.org
mistakenly posted a video contest entry that compared Bush to Hitler,
even though website co-founder Wes Boyd took it down and apologized almost
immediately.
Now some Democrats are calling on
Cole to apologize. Please. His constituents ought to demand that he
resign.
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