My apologies, I was speaking in shorthand when in reality Godwin’s law means something quite a bit different. In my defense, I can’t count how many times I’ve seen my original usage of Godwin’s law used conversationally on the web. From a reader:

Jonah,
Godwin’s Law does NOT say that the first person to mention Hitler or the Nazis “loses.” It says (per Wikipedia — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin’s_law): “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

And another reader:

Godwin’s Law:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Dougie thus fulfilled this prediction in rather record time…
USENET newsgroup tradition has it that the first flamer to hurl the
“Nazi” label automatically loses the argument. So there.