Okay, so here comes Charlie Webster, chair of the Maine Republican Party (you know, the guy who almost lost his post after screwing up the Maine caucus six ways from Sunday), defending Governor Paul LePage’s controversial statement calling the IRS “the new Gestapo,” and attacking anyone who would dare to criticize LePage for his rampant assholery. Talking Points Memo:

“What I think the governor is saying – he’s not a politician, everybody knows he’s not a politician, he’s a regular person, he’s a successful businessman and he isn’t politically correct,” Charlie Webster, chairman of the Maine GOP, told TPM Thursday.

Yeah, yeah, he’s not a politician, he’s a regular guy. And just like all regular guys, he just can’t help potty-mouthing and insulting his opponents. Look, Charlie: when you’re in a high-profile public position, your statements come in for greater scrutiny than if you’re just a “regular person.” That’s the way it works. Paul LePage voluntarily ran for the highest office in the state of Maine. And if LePage doesn’t like it, then he should pull a Thad McCotter and exit, stage right.

Webster continued:

“His point, I’m sure, is that we’ve got to get government under control. And we can’t have government dominating our lives at every moment.”

…”I’ve got friends of mine who came here [from Canada] because they couldn’t get their knee replaced in eight months,” he said. “That would be the only way you could tie [the IRS and the Gestapo] together.”

I gotta admit, you nailed it there, Charlie. An eight-month wait for elective surgery is just as bad as DYING IN A GAS CHAMBER. That ought to mollify the Anti-Defamation League.

But wait, Charlie has yet to shut his pinhole!

Webster says those who are offended by the governor’s comments are treated LePage with a double-standard.

“The press didn’t interview me when local legislators here in Maine suggested we hang Cheney. Or that President Bush was a Nazi. I mean it’s a one-sided street here,” he said. “We only talk about something that Republicans happen to say, no one’s talking about these extremists that represent the Maine and the Democratic Party in this country.”

Actually, Chucks, there was one Maine legislator (ONE), Chuck Kruger, who sent out a single Tweet that said “Cheney deserves same final end he gave Saddam.” He got absolutely pilloried for his remark. And you were, in fact, interviewed about the Tweet. And you called for his resignation! And Kruger received numerous death threats. And he offered a sincere and complete apology.

In fact, every time any Democrat, Progressive, or liberal politician says anything derogatory about a Republican, they get drawn and quartered by the conservative noise machine. So stop with your bullshit.