At least painting Karl Rove as a fascist is more accurate than painting President Obama as one. They’re on the right track.

Why doesn’t Rove realise that his new, natural constituency and political home is the current incarnation of the Democrats? What is there that he (really) cares about that he wouldn’t be able to achieve in tandem with Barry and the boys? He should get over himself, and change teams (or rather change wings of the Uniparty).

And Obama as Philippe Petain.

The purge will only be extended if these groups gain power.

Nazi, really? Why not a pig at the trough?

Excellent question. Guess the TeaTardz haven’t figured that one out yet. They’re more interested in bloviating and throwing temper tantrums than figuring out what’s really going on.

I’m sure the Rovestir could care less about this photo. Yet another giant sucking distraction for the Tea Party… the better to rip them off by Rover’s buddies.

Whatever…

Sorta the pot calling the kettle black, isn’t it?

If the tea party throws off their connection to the religous right and to big bucks and returns to their original intent before they got cooptted by the Koch brothers, their smaller government, put bankers in jail and reduce the debt message might gain alot of traction. If they get rid of the wacko candidates and get small government libertarians they might become a formidable group. They would also have more in common with the occupy movement than many on the left would like to admit to.

Petain wanted to avoid the horror of WW I in the trenches. For the France in WW II he was successful.

Many of the Upper Class in Europe in the ’30s were fascists, and admired Hitler and Mussolini.

He looks happy to me. I don’t know when I’ve seen Karl look so much at peace with himself. No doubt he has had to overcome enormous issues with body image and self-loathing. Maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to criticize?

Ooops. TP decided it was a mistake to portray Rove that way.

The fascist dictators did enjoy the support of many European conservatives. It wasn’t until the dictators took fascism to its next logical steps of overt nationalism, expansionism, and ethnic cleansing that some of the continent’s conservative leaders distanced themselves.

There’s been evidence that the Kochs started the Tea Party quite some time ago, so there never really was a “grass roots” Tea Party movement. It was astro-turfed from the get-go but used “reasonable” rhetoric to get the ball rolling. Then the rest, as they say, is history. It’s a bunch of lunatic fringe rightwing religofascist nonsense nowadays.

Your commentary is insightful, and I agree with you. However, it contains a lot of “Ifs” that I doubt would ever happen. Were the Tea Party to actually stand for what they *say* they stand for, then I’d probably be happy to join with them. That said, they seem more interested in selling out to Southern Strategy bright shiny distractions, rather than really considering how to better run the government. JMHO, of course.

TPP said in the email that in recent weeks “Republicans like Rove have called Tea Party members ‘racists,’ ‘bigots,’ ‘paranoid’ and even political ‘underbrush.’”

ha ha… well, Rover’s correct on that score, but who created that Frankenstein’s monster??

Sheesh… pass the popcorn!

Don’t you just love it when they go for each others throats ???

This was covered by Michael Schur on Current TV yesterday. There was a Koch inspired/funded document with a copyright of 2002 that called for the creation of the Tea Party to fight “big gov’t”. (Defined of course as anything that subsidizes the social rather than corporate interest).

I think that is despicable
Strike that,
I think that is unfair
Strike that
I think that is friggin’ hilarious

Third time is the charm

in recent weeks “Republicans like Rove have called Tea Party members ‘racists,’ ‘bigots,’ ‘paranoid’ and even political ‘underbrush.’”

Can’t really argue with that.

It’s what I live for.

“Many of the Upper Class in Europe in the ’30s were fascists, and admired Hitler and Mussolini.”

As were a number of prominent Americans.

Dear Republicans:

Please keep digging. If you wear out your shovel, let me know. I will buy you a new one.

Your friend,

Coach

If you run out of funds, let me know.

Has Rove ordered the extrajudicial killing of American citizens? Obama has.

Agree entirely. The Tea Party has already built its brand, though. I don’t think there’s any going back to its origins.

There’s not enough room in this country for two Hitlers. Rove and Obama should fight.

Huh.

Back in the days of Occupy, there was a (reddit?) blog post by an early Tea Partier who claimed the group was grassroots and got coopted by the Kochs and warned Occupy that the same forces would try to coopt it. I wish I had a link. It was a very persuasive, interesting read.

The similarities between the Fascists and the Tea Party are even more involved. While the fascists arose independently (partly to an actual communist threat but mostly due to the stab-in-the-back betrayal myth). They had some wealthy funders who admired Hitler’s call to action, even if it was steeped in nonsense from the start. He and his gang were influenced by a strain of hard-right political traditions as the gang refined them for contemporary consumption. He and the gang seemed like a bunch of doofuses for awhile but then they had to be taken seriously. The legit. conservatives aligned with them thinking they could use their popularity. When the Nazis were elected (not with a majority but a solid plurality), the conservatives led by Franz Von Papen (if I remember rightly) came in and thought they would control things with the Nazis in a supporting role. Hitler showed Von Papen the door and told him Hitler would call him, and Von Papen need not call the Nazi leader. Your assignment, kids, is to read Robert Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism. I think it is on p. 45 where Paxton gives a quick checklist of common traits of all fascist movements. Then, see if you can think of any political or media figure who fits the criteria (you can bend and shape a bit).

And Obama’s avoiding the political trenches.