Sounds familiar:

(Via Wikipedia)

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

- The United States Office of Strategic Services in describing Hitler's psychological profile.

I'm going to have to say, this sounds like a page from the McCain/Palin campaign book. These creeps are willing to do and say anything to maintain power, and in that regard, at least, they sure resemble Adolph.