Nazis for Me? How Soon They Forget Bush as Hitler

From Andrew McCarthy at National Review, "Nazis for Me, but Not for Thee: Why shouldn’t socialized medicine prompt comparisons to National Socialism?":

Nazi Germany is a useful historical example of socialism run amok. The genocide and terrorism ultimately practiced by the Nazis were horrible — that goes without saying. But National Socialism went on for a dozen years, it was the last stage in a progressive nationalization of German society, and there was a lot more to it than genocide and terrorism. It cannot be that because there was genocide and terrorism, the socialist aspects of National Socialism are outside the lines of acceptable political discourse. Given the immense popularity of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, one of the most important political books of the last quarter-century, it doesn’t look like Americans are as convinced as Mort Kondracke seems to be that these comparisons are verboten.

Morton Kondracke slammed Rush Limbaugh for comparing Democrats to the Nazis.

Of course, we just emerged from 8 years of "BusHitler" demonization, so it's a bit hard to swallow the left's outrage. See, "The Left's Nazification of Bush." And Democratic Underground proudly boasts a huge roundup, " “Bushitler” (George W. Bush comparable to Adolf Hitler)."

Also, from Zombie, "Bush as Hitler, Swastika-Mania: A Retrospective."

At recent rallies, town hall meetings and “tea parties,” a few protesters have shown up with signs comparing Obama to Hitler (i.e. depicting him with a Hitler mustache), or displaying swastikas in the context of implying that Obama and/or his administration are Nazi-like.

One would think that this would not be particularly newsworthy, but Democrats, the White House and their supporters are expressing outrage at this “horrifying” and “menacing” turn of events ....

Since I had a front-row seat between 2003 and 2008 at anti-Bush protests in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I saw literally THOUSANDS of Bush/Hitler comparisons and swastikas, I thought perhaps it would be useful to compile here in one place a small sampling of them — to prove beyond any doubt that Hitler and swastikas were referenced incessantly at basically every single protest during the Bush administration. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying, as is anyone who claims that people who bring swastikas to rallies are necessarily self-identifying as Nazis.

Related: I retired from Rule 5 blogging, but GSGF, my friend and young neocon, forwarded me the hotness!