Vichy Republicans

Red State's finest, Erick Erickson, has this to say today:

"Now, twenty years after Rush began, some Republicans who once fell all over themselves to get on the air with him, have decided he is too shrill, too conservative, and too harmful to the cause.

They have become Vichy Republicans....

Call Powell, Ridge, etc. quislings, Vichy Republicans or whatever you like, but one thing is clear — these respected men have chosen to use their positions and media adoration to take on not Rush and Dick Cheney, but conservatives."

There it is, folks. Failing to mindlessly oppose every single thing Obama and the Democrats try to do, is exactly equivalent to total collaboration with Nazi Germany.

One more little remark worth mentioning:

"Why? Because Cheney, Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, Coulter, and others are burning down their potemkim village — their facade of being both reasonable and on the right."

And there you have it. How could those people be so ignorant as to believe that you could be "both reasonable and on the right?"

Thanks, Erick. I couldn't have put it better myself.

Note: for those who might be confused, Vichy refers not to the water, but to the WWII French government that collaborated with the Nazis. Quisling is a reference to Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian who sold his country out to the Nazis and was made head of the Fascist Norwegian government after the Nazis conquered Norway.

Comments

Poll P. said…
Okay, good. But how about explaining the 'potemkin' reference?

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