If GOP insists on calling Obama "Socialist": Why can we not call McCain Fascist?

[OHdem10]

"Fascism should be more appropriately called CORPORATISM,
because it is the merger of state and corporate power....Benito Mussolini.

No one has more power or receive more benefits under GOP than the
Business Community of this country.

If being for the Middle Class is Socialist, I wear it as a badge of
honor.

[liberalmuse]

1. Yep. Fascism, or...

Socialism (i.e. European model)? You decide!

[fascisthunter]

2. exactly

[Vincardog]

3. WE can not call McCain a Fascist because McCain is a Fascist They call

Obama a "Socialist" because he is not a "Socialist" he is too centerist for me
but he is the best we have.

[DBoon]

4. because when you explain fascism to most republicans

it seems like a perfectly reasonable way to run things

We don't want to encourage these thugs and give them ideas

[Zodiak]

10. True 'dat n/t

[Median Democrat]

5. Oh, Why Don't We Call McCain A Doody Head While We Are At It

I think Obama's effort to treat voters like their adults may actually pay off.

[tigereye]

6. it's hilarious, since the Bush admin just performed one of the most

Socialist of acts by taking over banks...

:rofl:

[TheKentuckian]

7. I'd call McCain apparently asleep

when civics and government were studied in school, like most Republicans.

A progressive tax system (like we have done for years) is NOT SOCIALISM. What socialism is, is what Dubya/Paulson have done.

Still, most people when given the choice would choose for the government to own corporation (socialism) if the other option is for corporations to own the government (fascism).

[goletian]

8. we are better off calling them on their nonsense instead of using extreme hyperbole ourselves.

liberals dont need fallacious bs like conservatives do. we just need to call people on it.

[meow mix]

9. um because they are in the gutter.. and making a disgrace of thier party.

by exposing themselves quite possible destroying thier own party for at least 20 years.


as much as i agree...
i like the view from up here, out of the gutter.

[dudewheresmycountry]

11. Look come November, we will

just call him a loser!

[baldguy]

12. Because calling McCain & Palin fascists would be the truth.

Can't go around telling people the truth now, can we?

[Orsino]

13. Most folks are too timid, I suppose.

But if it quacks like a fascist, it's a fascist.

[LWolf]

14. Fascist is certainly more accurate,

since there is nothing remotely socialist about Obama.

As long as we're tossing terms around. The Bush administration, with McCain supporting, on the other hand, has numerous characteristics of fascism.

[Kajsa]

15. Why not call the "First Dude"

married to McCain's VP pick,

a Secessionist, which he is?

[intaglio]

16. Not Fascist but a Banana Republican

A man who wants to turn the US into a Banana Republic and become its Tin-Pot Dictator