Oh, hell I agree, and it's because he says it and the media repeats it over and over and over again. The RWPM (right wing propaganda machine) comes out of the gate that it's political. The MM piles on by repeating in quotes (of course) and headlines, and by bothsiding.

I can't disagree with you. Last year a local produced signs in my area that said if you're a democrat you're a pedophile. We need to make them: if you are republican you support pedophiles.