Yes, they did. NPR ran Naomi Wolf in summer 2008 speculating Bush would keep himself in office using "Nazi" tactics. You B Keane have this conceit that Democrats are more noble. The only way to bring peace to our politics is to focus on using only voluntary organizations (by definition, non-governmental) to solve problems. Republicans have to swear off using contracts (which government enforced) that in practice favor the rich, and Democrats have to give up using laws which by definition are systems of mass coercion enforced by the government's monopoly on legitimate violence.