Buried at the very end of a Washington Post article in Saturday’s paper is a John Glenn comment that should give sensible individuals reason to pause, “You’ve just got to separate out fact from fiction. . . . Too often, too often, in this country, if you hear something repeated, it’s the old Hitler business — if you hear something repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated, you start to believe it.” (In the interest of full research discolure, the quote has been picked up by the GOP website, where I found it.)

That’s right, John Glenn – the man who cast the vote at the Democratic National Convention that put John Kerry over the top as the party’s nominee – is comparing Kerry detractors to Hitler.

Now I know it’s fashionable on the left to compare right-leaners to Hitler; Moveon.org actually ran ads online morphing George W. Bush into the German dictator. But it just seems a touch radical to compare the man currently supported by more than half of this country to a genocidal lunatic. Bush wants to leave no child behind; Hitler wanted to leave no Jewish child.

There’s a big difference between compassionate conservatism and eugenics, and it’s about time the left learns it.