Gee, you think it’s just a coincidence that so many wingnuts are suddenly smearing Al Gore with Nazi analogies - or are they simply regurgitating their RNC talking points?

From Countdown:

UNGER: For five years now, Al Gore has been, you know, little more than a political punch line at times. Why go to all this trouble of attacking him now? I mean, are conservatives legitimately scared of a Gore comeback here?

BAZINET: I don’t — I don’t know that they’re necessarily scared of a Gore comeback, but I think it’s the message. It’s sort of a — it’s a wine whose time has come, I think. In 2000, when Al Gore was talking about climate change and global warming, I don’t think people by and by could state their position, articulate how they felt about it or even tell you what it was. I think now, in 2006, we’re at a place were people actually do have an opinion of this. They go on the Internet and they want to try and find out what does climate change have to do with hurricane season, for instance. What exactly are greenhouse gases? So, I think the timing of this really is — is what’s essential. I don’t think it’s so much the messenger as it is the message.

UNGER: It feels, though, that this is a personal attack. The politics of global warming has — of course, you know, the science has long been in dispute. Is this more personal?

BAZINET: Well, I don’t think that Al Gore has sort of manufactured himself to become a candidate overnight, but I do think that he can lay claim to this issue. But again, I want to get back to my — to really, my first answer. They’re attacking Al Gore because he’s the perfect messenger. He can articulate this. I spoke with someone who attended a screening of this film, and one point that she made was that he really does a good job of simplifying things that are very complicated to, I think, the untrained mind. I think that’s very dangerous. If you can say in a simple declarative sentence what the problem is, back it up with science, I think that really you have a hot potato there and I think that the right is very concerned about that, potentially those folks who are on the payroll of big oil at this point, I believe.

UNGER: The swift-boating of John Kerry helped secured four more years of George W. Bush. Anything that it would suggest that it won’t work this time?

BAZINET: Well, first of all, what ballot is he on? And, you know, second of all, I think that there is probably more science to back up Al Gore’s case at this point. I’m not sure that this will work to destroy Al Gore as much as it’s going to cause an awful lot of people who, you know, quite frankly, he wasn’t on their radar screens, but now he will be. Any time you hammer someone, I mean, people want to know why. So, I think it’s a real risk move and I think that’s why you don’t necessarily see so-called mainstream Republicans jumping in on this, but rather sort of the fractured right at this point.