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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick

Here's Axelrod making a directly Nazi comparison: https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/sta...46985970302976


See also : https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.ce695ca34d8f

It's a shame when you blow all of your "Republicans are Nazis" ammo at Mitt Romney, of all people.

So, a few things. One is that Axelrod tweeted that in March, and Romney made his binders of women comment seven months later, in October, so unless you credit Axelrod with prescience remarkable even for a political consultant, it's hard to say that tweet has anything to do with the "binders of women."

Two, when you look at the tweet Axelrod sent five minutes earlier, it's pretty clear that he's not calling Romney a Nazi, but comparing Romney's 7-1 spending advantage in the GOP primary in Illinois to the German army's Blitzkreig.

Third, sometimes people use German when comparing other people to Hitler, but that does not mean any allusion to German is a Hitler comparison. You must get this, since you are pointing out that Mitt's awkwardness in saying "binders of women" did not necessarily signal sexism.