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Politicizing the Holocaust, equating the Obama administration with totalitarian communism, telling Jewish voters that the destruction of Israel by a Nazi-like threat is 'imminent'--such were the talking points in Newt Gingrich's speech to the American Israel Political Action Committee. And that was just the first few minutes.
In the bygone days of yesteryear---say, 24 months ago--
when the GOP wanted to scare voters away from Democrats, they would invoke threats of dirty bombs exploding at Mrs. Field's Cookies in the Any-town, USA shopping mall. Dick Cheney would be rolled out of his undisclosed location, given a fresh battery for his pacemaker and a fresh coat of gloom for his suit. He would then be propped on some public stage where he would hiss and wheeze a smoldering image of America destroyed by nuclear weapons within five minutes of a Democratic Party win in the House of Representatives or the Senate or the White House. The fear was palpable, the shadowy ads of terrorist training camps were scary. Ah, 2006. Simpler times.
Gingrich takes this fear tactic to a new level. Gingrich pushes it to--grotesque.
At Gingrich's recent speech to AIPAC, he stood up and told the mostly Jewish audience that the coming threat of another Holocaust committed by Iran was "imminent," and that "many of our elites around the world," were engaged in a totalitarian effort to deny the reality of this looming genocide.
Gingrich then claimed that the year 2009 presented the same danger to the world as the year 1939--
the year the Germans invaded Poland.
"A world that will destroy Israel will surely destroy the United States," Gingrich predicted."
