Rhetoric Wars

The reader replies to a RedState diary entry praising Georgia Representative Paul Broun for comparing Obama to Hitler and Communism fall into two camps:

1. The Democrats went overboard in comparing Bush to Hitler; we shouldn’t make the same rhetorical mistake.
2. We need to make bold statements in order to get our case heard by the mainstream media; the comparison is accurate anyway.

What’s interesting is a common awareness by the ground troops of the potential for the misuse of rhetoric. The vast majority of responses here take the second “whatever means necessary” side. The rhetoric wars for the next few years may make the negative campaign ads of 2008 look like a minor disagreement between friends.