Wingnut Stopped Clock Is Still Right Twice A Day Alert

It's amazing what getting your ass kicked in the race for the White House and in both houses of Congress will do for wingnut perspective. Today's penitent petitioner? Cap'n Ed Morrissey of Malkinvania's scream site, Hot Air, talking about today's earlier douchebag, Rep. Paul Broun's
"Obama Gestapo" comments.

Nothing in that speech hints at a Gestapo-like organization at all. I’d agree that we have to remain vigilant at all times to ensure that the government doesn’t try to impose such a regime upon us, but this is an extremely thin reed to grasp for such a conclusion. Although I supported a freer hand at the NSA in monitoring communications with one end in the US for possible terrorist activities given the dangers we face in this era, it’s far easier for the government to turn that into a Gestapo than what Obama proposed. That’s why I understood the Left’s opposition to it (as well as a small minority of conservatives) and thought reasonable safeguards against potential abuse were appropriate, as the eventual compromise in Congress provided.

If we plan to offer a rational alternative to the coming debacle of the next two years, then we’d better stick to facts and eschew hyperbole. We need to oppose the reality of the radical agenda proposed by Obama and the Democratic majorities in Congress, not fantasies spun out of context-free snippets of speeches. The more critics invoke Hitler and Stalin instead of Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson, the better the reality of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi will seem in 2010.

Well no duh, Ed.

You might want to talk to your boss about this whole "Obama is not Hitler" thing first, however.