I'm always uncomfortable, to be blunt, with the attachment of words like Taliban or Nazi to someone other than actual Nazis or Taliban. I think PCRM are dead wrong, unethical, and generally an awful bunch. I wouldn't want to confuse ethics in relationship to their abhorent behavior with the brutal murderers that ruled Afghanistan in the 1990's.

They're a rotten bunch, but they aren't Taliban. It's just out of perspective to make those comparisons (the same as the people who inevitably compare others to Hitler; only Hitler was Hitler, folks).

I just think we'd all be better off maintaining some kind of proper perspective on this kind of namecalling. Mrs. Atkins probably has a personal reason to hate PCRM's guts, so it's a bit more understandable in her case than in many others.