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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2344796" data-attributes="member: 246624">The Atlantic&#039;s Josh Green reports&nbsp; that millionaire businessman Rich Iott, the Republican nominee challenging Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) in Ohio&#039;s Ninth District, has an unusual hobby: He likes to pretend he&#039;s a Nazi.Iott, a tea party-backed candidate, spent time fighting another battle before he hit the campaign trail against Kaptur as a member of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division, a group of Ohio World War II reenactors.

According to their website, the Wikings strive to &quot;salute&quot; the &quot;idealists&quot; from occupied northern Europe who saw the Third Reich as &quot;the protector of personal freedom and their very way of life&quot; and signed up to fight for the Wermacht and &quot;gave their lives for their loved ones and a basic desire to be free.&quot;Hat tip <a href="http://deepseanews.com/" target="_blank">Kevin</a>Here they are playing:Nazis.&nbsp; I hate these guys. &nbsp;<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/it_is_not_a_godwin_to_say_that.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/2maZ-IIvpiM" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/2maZ-IIvpiM/it_is_not_a_godwin_to_say_that.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2344796, member: 246624"] [INDENT]The Atlantic's Josh Green reports that millionaire businessman Rich Iott, the Republican nominee challenging Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) in Ohio's Ninth District, has an unusual hobby: He likes to pretend he's a Nazi.Iott, a tea party-backed candidate, spent time fighting another battle before he hit the campaign trail against Kaptur as a member of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division, a group of Ohio World War II reenactors. According to their website, the Wikings strive to "salute" the "idealists" from occupied northern Europe who saw the Third Reich as "the protector of personal freedom and their very way of life" and signed up to fight for the Wermacht and "gave their lives for their loved ones and a basic desire to be free."[/INDENT] Hat tip [URL="http://deepseanews.com/"]Kevin[/URL] Here they are playing: Nazis. I hate these guys. [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/it_is_not_a_godwin_to_say_that.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/2maZ-IIvpiM[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/2maZ-IIvpiM/it_is_not_a_godwin_to_say_that.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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