Written by RS Janes   

How much do today’s prominent Republicans resemble Adolf Hitler in their thinking? Take the multiple choice test below matching the quote to the quoted and judge for yourself. (Answers follow quiz.)

1. “Universal [public] education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented.”

A. Rep. Michele Bachmann
B. Gov. Rick Perry
C. Gov. Sarah Palin
D. Adolf Hitler

2. “What we have to fight for is the freedom and independence of [our nation], so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.”

A. Rep. Michele Bachmann
B. Gov. Mitt Romney
C. Gov. Rick Perry
D. Adolf Hitler

3. “They [liberals, unbelievers] seek to remove from the public domain any acknowledgment of God. Religion is seen as merely a private affair with no place in public life. It is as if they are intent on establishing a new religion in [our nation] – the religion of secularism. They are wrong."

A. Rep. Michele Bachmann
B. Gov. Sarah Palin
C. Gov. Mitt Romney
D. Adolf Hitler

4. “[We have] the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.”

A. Rep. Michele Bachmann
B. Gov. Sarah Palin
C. Sen. Rick Santorum
D. Adolf Hitler

5. “Hearing any leader declare that [our land] isn't a Christian nation and poking an ally like _____ in the eye, it's mind-boggling ..."

A. Rep. Michele Bachmann
B. Gov. Sarah Palin
C. Newt Gingrich
D. Adolf Hitler

6. “We need to be a country that turns toward God. Not a country that turns away from God.”

A. Rep. Michele Bachmann
B. Gov. Sarah Palin
C. Gov. Tim Pawlenty
D. Adolf Hitler

7. "I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of [this country], by the time [my young relatives are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by [radicals] and with no understanding of what it once meant to be [a citizen of our land]."

A. Rep. Michele Bachmann
B. Gov. Rick Perry
C. Newt Gingrich
D. Adolf Hitler

8. "I look at the Scripture and I read it and I take it for what it is. I give more credence in the Scripture as being kind of a timeless word of God to mankind, and I take it for what it is.”

A. Rep. Michele Bachmann
B. Gov. Sarah Palin
C. Herman Cain
D. Adolf Hitler

9. “[That foreign country] is the trouble maker, trying to tip over apple carts all over [that region] right now because they want [us] to pull out. And do you know why? It’s because they’ve already decided that they’re going to partition [that country].”

A. Rep. Michele Bachmann
B. Gov. Sarah Palin
C. Newt Gingrich
D. Adolf Hitler

10. “Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity ... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess [in] the past ...”

A. Rep. Michele Bachmann
B. Gov. Sarah Palin
C. Sen. Rick Santorum
D. Adolf Hitler

11. "We must close union offices, confiscate their money ... We must ... take away their right to strike."

A. Gov. John Kasich
B. Gov. Rick Snyder
C. Gov. Chris Christie
D. Adolf Hitler

12. “If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us.”

A. Rep. Michele Bachmann
B. Gov. Sarah Palin
C. Sen. Rick Santorum
D. Adolf Hitler

13. “I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.”

A. Rep. Michele Bachmann
B. Gov. Sarah Palin
C. Jeb Bush
D. Adolf Hitler

ANSWERS:

1. D. Hitler.

2. D. Hitler again, in “Mein Kampf”

3. C. Mitt Romney, from a Dec. 6, 2007, speech.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23830

4. D. Hitler, from “Mein Kampf”

5. B. Sarah Palin, the ally was Israel.

6. C. Tim Pawlenty

7. C. Newtie

8. A. Michele Bachmann, in an interview with Todd Fiel at KKMS as quoted in the Stillwater Gazette, September 29, 2003.

9. A. Michele strikes again.

10. D. Hitler.

11. D. Attributed to Hitler on May 2, 1933, the day he banned independent labor unions in Germany.

12. D. Hitler, speaking at the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival, Oct. 3, 1937.

13. D. Hitler, “Mein Kampf”

Notice how difficult it was to distinguish the quotes by Hitler from those of prominent Republicans?

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