Last night, elected Republican City Councilman Erick Erickson took issue with appointed LP-Georgia Operations Director Brett Bittner’s Facebook post saying that Republican Governor candidate Nathan Deal was “in good company” with Neo-Nazis.
This is the same Erick Erickson who once tied another group of Neo-Nazis, StormFront, around Ron Paul’s neck. (This is also the same Erick Erickson who, as GriftDrift likes to point out, once called a sitting Supreme Court Justice a “goat f*cking child molester“.)
Clearly, Brett needs to be more careful in what he puts up on Facebook. Of course, saying what Erick said about a sitting Supreme Court Justice also falls into the “be more careful about what you post” category as well.
That said, Erick in his PP post last night makes it seem like Brett called Deal a Nazi – which he clearly did NOT. He simply noted that Deal and the Nazis were on the same side on this issue. He certainly didn’t hang the Nazis around Deal’s neck to anywhere NEAR the extent that Erick himself hung them around Ron Paul’s neck.
I hate to refer to Wayne Allen Root, but he really did craft a very useful term in situations like this: Weapon of Mass Distraction.
When your Governor nominee is at BEST a corrupt idiot partial-birther, I completely understand your motivation for trying to keep the public as distracted from that fact as possible. So you manufacture “controversies” like a mosque being built on Ground Zero (it is two blocks away, completely hidden from view) on 9/11 (that was never in the cards, and never will be) or make wild accusations about a guy in the other Party (as we’ve seen above, this is Erick’s stock-in-trade).
What is going on here is simple: Erick is seeking to discredit the Libertarian Party of Georgia because he sees that it is entirely possible that John Monds could get 20% of the vote on November 2, thereby earning LP-Ga the same ballot access that is currently enjoyed by only the Democrats and Republicans in Georgia. Erick doesn’t want that to happen, because it would threaten his Party’s deathgrip on this State – even though Republicans over the last 8 years have shown themselves to be little better than the Democrats before them or their National counterparts when it comes to fiscal conservatism and individual liberty. Heck, at least Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Murphy was widely known to protect individual liberty (admittedly to be stupid) whenever the issue got anywhere near his chamber. The Republicans decided this year that Big Brother knows better than you.
I’m not a big fan of Brett Bittner, but Erick Erickson is simply -yet again – trying to manufacture “controversy” where none actually exists.
