Do you know this man? You should..he is friend and contributor to the McCain Campaign

October 9, 2008 | Miami, Florida | Vetting explained

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The Fuhrer was G Gordon Liddy's first political hero. Liddy was a sickly, asthmatic child when he grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey, in the 1930s. The town was full of ethnic Germans who idolized Hitler. Liddy was made to salute the Stars and Stripes Nazi-style by the nuns at his school; even now, he admits, "at assemblies where the national anthem is played, I must suppress the urge to snap out my right arm.

When he listened to Hitler on the radio, it "made me feel a strength inside I had never known before," he explains. "Hitler's sheer animal confidence and power of will entranced me. He sent an electric current through my body."

after reading the writings of the notorious anti-Semite Charles Lindbergh, Liddy decided to pick his wife on eugenic grounds

He used to take his kids to see Leni Reifenstahl's Nazi propaganda movie 'The Triumph of the Will

Liddy's seems to believe -- as his childhood icon did -- that life is an eternal war against Absolute Enemies

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