# A libertarian republican goes nuts **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 9, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452 "2012-11-09T04:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/61 "2012-11-10T17:56:10Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > And Godwin’s proven right again. Now Romney is Hitler. Congratulations, you’re now on the same level as Rush Limbaugh. The point, in case you missed it, is that on every issue where Obama and Romney disagreed, Romney was wrong and Obama was right. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/62 "2012-11-10T18:05:47Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > And Godwin’s proven right again. Now Romney is Hitler. Congratulations, you’re now on the same level as Rush Limbaugh. No he’s simply pointing out that most humans agree on most things. When someone says party x is wrong on everything, the clearly imply that they are wrong on everything _where they differ from the other party._ ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/63 "2012-11-10T18:07:34Z")
> [@fumster](#): > > And Hitler and Churchill agreed on most things as well: puppies are cute, sex feels good, sugar is sweet, don’t take a crap on the tablecloth, … Who’s tablecloth? ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/64 "2012-11-10T18:38:01Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > The thing is, you are quite well informed, and obviously are aware of where the parties and the candidates stand. > > Many others though? They’ve been told that Obama is the worst left-leaning socialist/communist president in the entire history of the country. FoxNews and talk radio have convinced them that he’s not just wrong, or slightly different from Romney, but that he is actively EVIL, and will not just take the country in a different direction, but will DESTROY the country. There is a whole cable network and radio shows that tells them this over and over. A significant percentage of them think he is the antichrist. > > Indeed it does. However, the same aforementioned cable news network and talk radio is doing just this, and doing it well. Why? Well, one needs only to follow the money. They do not want their viewers/listeners to go elsewhere. How to convince them to stay and listen to your advertisements? Tell them that to go elsewhere is to accept EVIL COMMUNISTIC IDEAS. > > It’s like the controlling abusive spouse who will not let their partner see friends or family anymore. They are afraid that they might lose control. FoxNews/Talk radio is that abusive spouse. This! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/65 "2012-11-10T20:28:46Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > No he’s simply pointing out that most humans agree on most things. When someone says party x is wrong on everything, the clearly imply that they are wrong on everything _where they differ from the other party._ I thought this went without saying, but apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/66 "2012-11-10T21:06:44Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > And Godwin’s proven right again. Now Romney is Hitler. Congratulations, you’re now on the same level as Rush Limbaugh. Thank you for proving our point; activist extremist Republicans play an absurd game of false equivalence. You just provided a sterling (if rather odious) example. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/67 "2012-11-10T21:09:30Z")
But I don’t _want_ an Oxycontin addiction! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/68 "2012-11-10T21:20:40Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > But I don’t _want_ an Oxycontin addiction! Shut up and take your medicine. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/69 "2012-11-10T22:00:13Z")
The guy quoted in the OP is a massively enormous dick. Anyone who would defriend people on Facebook because they voted for Romney is a smaller dick. But turning this entire conversation into a compare and contrast between those two types of behavior is distracting from the important issue of how of a massively enormous dick the guy quoted in the OP is. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/70 "2012-11-11T00:42:08Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Thank you for proving our point; activist extremist Republicans play an absurd game of false equivalence. You just provided a sterling (if rather odious) example. **RickJay** is a Canadian, so I doubt that he’s an activist extremist Republican. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/71 "2012-11-13T00:30:50Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Thank you for proving our point; activist extremist Republicans play an absurd game of false equivalence. You just provided a sterling (if rather odious) example. It comes as quite a surprise to me that I’m a Republican. Hell, I’m disqualified three times over. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/72 "2012-11-13T00:40:05Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > Are there no workhouses? Well, there’s human trafficking; solves the same problem. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/73 "2012-11-13T00:41:27Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > **RickJay** is a Canadian, so I doubt that he’s an activist extremist Republican. Why not? **Sam Stone** is. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/74 "2012-11-13T02:32:22Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > And Godwin’s proven right again. Now Romney is Hitler. Congratulations, you’re now on the same level as Rush Limbaugh. ??? Romney is not Hitler and Obama is not Churchill. Hitler is Hitler and Churchill is Churchill and I chose them because they are well-known contemporaries who were on very opposite sides, more so than Obama and Romney, and yet one can point out many things they agreed on. Can we now define RickJay’s Law that as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Limbaugh approaches 1? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/75 "2012-11-13T04:59:31Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Why not? **Sam Stone** is. But I’m not. Look, Romney would have been a bad President, but he’s not a Nazi. Jesus, it’s like Fox News got cloned, but in a weird mirror universe, and all their mirror-pundits are coming here. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/76 "2012-11-13T05:01:03Z")
And the search for equivalence continues… ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/77 "2012-11-13T05:39:09Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > But I’m not. Look, Romney would have been a bad President, but he’s not a Nazi. Jesus, it’s like Fox News got cloned, but in a weird mirror universe, and all their mirror-pundits are coming here. I’m confused, who said Romney was a Nazi? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2012, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452/78 "2012-11-13T06:26:23Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Look, Romney would have been a bad President, but he’s not a Nazi. He was the quantum candidate. He both would and would not have been a Nazi. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-libertarian-republican-goes-nuts/640452.md?page=3)