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To: JohnM who wrote (259604)	8/31/2014 1:01:55 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 542552

"Someone needs to explain the right's adoration for Vladimir Putin because it's creeping me out." Putin is a skinhead. What's not to like?

To: JohnM who wrote (259604)	8/31/2014 3:24:18 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 542552

Putin is an authoritarian "cult of personality" type leader, in the same vein as Stalin, Hitler and Mao. Russians like him, because they feel internationally dissed, and feel he's working against that. They are used to these types of leaders, since it's all they've had. Authoritarians worldwide like him. Even here.

To: JohnM who wrote (259604)	9/1/2014 1:26:57 PM
From: ggersh	Respond to of 542552

Because the right is lilly white. "I voted against George W. Bush in both 2000 and 2004, and I spent most of his presidency actively working against his administration with every tool at my disposal, but I never said or wrote that I would prefer that the country be led by a foreigner or a foreign leader. Not so, for many pundits on the right. Ann Coulter wants Benjamin Netanyahu to be our president, Erick Erickson wants David Cameron to be our president, and Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle would be okay with either Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin being our president. "