Let's begin with a bit of history to set the scene....

From Howie Klein at Down With Tyranny writes:

"When the Great Depression started taking its toll on our country in thelate '20s and early '30s, it was also devastating the rest of theworld. Over the previous decade, the elites had made their move towardsa kind of feudalism in which they owned everything and everyone elsewould get by on their table scraps. The U.S. combated that by turning the political party that supported those elites-- the Republicans-- out of office.In 1928, with ineffectual, business-oriented Herbert Hoover aspresident, the Republicans held 56 seats in the Senate and theDemocrats only 39. In the House, there were 270 Republicans and 164Democrats. Then came the Crash of 1929. In the 1930 midterms, a weekafter the Crash, Republicans lost 8 seats in the Senate, giving theDemocrats a 1 vote majority. In the House the Republicans lost 52seats, retaining a razor-thin majority, which was wiped away betweenNovember and January when several Republicans died and Democrats won inspecial elections. In 1932, FDR defeated Hoover and the GOP lost adozen more Senate seats and a startling 101 House seats. When Congressconvened in January there were 313 Democrats and 117 Republicans. TheRepublicans yelled and screamed about "socialism" and tried obstructingeverything. The voters responded in the 1934 midterms by defeating 14more Republicans in the House and ten more in the Senate. By the timeRoosevelt was reelected to his second term in 1936, the GOP had sunk to16 Senate seats and 88 House seats (to the Democrats' 334). That's howAmericans responded to obstructionism in the face of FDR'sroll-up-our-sleeves-and-get-to-work approach to saving the country."

"But, as Krugman implied in a column last week, Obama is tepid and inexperienced and has been a disappointing, pale shadow of
FDR."

Instead of real, fighting Democrats, we have this.....(an explanation and warning by Clancy Siegal at Counterpunch):  "Wimps don't win....the point of the Republican ads is to bully voters[with] a barely disguised code, and the code is pur impotent hatred....Democratsfold to appease their unappeasable Republican enemies....Moral: You turn tailfrom bullies and they chase you into a dark alley and kick you todeath."

And Klein states: "You may know about Godwin's "law" which says if you talk about Nazisonline, you automatically lose the argument. Yesterday the crooked anddetestable right-wing Democrat running for governor of Rhode Island,Frank Caprio, told Obama-- in regard to a non-endorsement-- to shove it. Michael Godwin can do the same. The Republicans areNazis. In fact... even worse than Godwin's rule about not callingrightists Nazis, is a similar ban by The Village on calling dangerous,violent, right-wing religious fanatics the American Taliban. But thatis very much what we face going into next week's elections."

"Or do you not see the relation between Sharron Angle's "SecondAmendment remedies," Joe Miller's private thugs roughing upjournalists, Daniel Webster's religious cult calling for the stoning ofdisobedient women and gays (stoning to death, I might add), right-wingattacks on Raul Grijalva's office (the latest with toxic chemicalagents meant to kill staffers),"

Sincethe Nixon era, authoritarian Republicans have been the masters atcampaign and election dirty tricks and fraud, including malicious andillegal voter suppression (the late William Rehnquist, former SupremeCourt justice and Republican activist, was notoriously involved inminority voter suppression in Arizona),  but in this current cyclethese right wing totalitarian GOP candidates not only spew lies anddisinformation, but are OK with their followers and political thugsescalating to mean, raw violence. 

Rand Paul's followers appear to copy the Talibanbeating "uppity liberal" women in Afghanistan violently physicallyabusing a Democratic woman in Kentucky while Rand's Taliban womanstomper wants the victim to apologize to him.

Meanwhile, Eric Cantor  uses local law enforcement as storm troopers perpetrating violence on members of the public exercising their rights in Virginia.

In a blatant example of totalitarian bigotry, these GOPers will nottolerate any Democrats at their fascist candidates' public events.

As Klein concludes in his commentary: "If America votes in the Republicans next week, it's one giant step--perhaps an irreversible one-- towards what the German's allowed tohappen to them in 1933."