In public life — and certainly in politics — it's been proven again and again that one should really avoid using the term "Nazi" or "Hitler" when describing something happening in contemporary terms. That's usually because nothing contemporary generally can ever be as horrific as the Holocaust, and it's a cheap stunt when somebody invokes those terms.
Osama bin Laden might fall into that category. But that hardly seems to be where Florida Senator Bill Nelson was going when he joined up with Tallahassee Democrats to denounce a voter "reform" bill being sponsored by Florida Republican Legislators.
In Tallahassee, Nelson joined his fellow Democrats Monday morning in criticizing a bill that, among other things, would decrease the number of days for early voting, and require citizens to vote provisionally if they've changed their address but haven't contacted their local Supervisor of Elections by Election Day. That means their votes would be put in a separate batch, and could be challenged later on.
The words that offended the GOP by Nelson were these:
"Should we deny those very military personnel that carried out this very successful decapitating of the Al Qaida snake? Should we deny them because they have signed their voter registration card in a different way than they signed their absentee ballot overseas?"
