Originally Posted By Mr X <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3655178&op=1&view=all&subj=373854973434&aid=-1&auser=0&oid=373854973434&id=24718773587" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/photo....18773587</a> Not too subtle, are ya you loony! I keep wondering what's next. I thought the vitriol of the campaign was beyond belief, but at this point they might as well have been running commercials of puppies and rainbows compared to now!
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy I wonder if she'll use her helicopter to fly over these districts and shoot members of Congress the way she hunts for moose?
Originally Posted By dshyates She also uses violent rhetoric like "reload the charge" and "take aim" at members of congress. Now if some right wing-nut actually does shoot one of these members of congress, she will claim that nothing she has said or done had anything to do with it. And that it is just an isolated incident from a crazy person.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan If an average citizen drew crosshairs in crayon over the names of political figures on the back of an envelope, the FBI would investigate really quickly. When an ex-governor has a staff member do that on a website, that's A-okay. Eventually, this stuff is going to end badly for someone. Watch how quickly Palin and others who are fanning the flames will distance themselves when it finally happens. Millions of their sheep will explain it all away, too.
Originally Posted By Mr X Oh, it already DID happen, with Bill O'Reilley and the murder of Dr. Tiller. Never saw anyone say "Who, me?" so fast in my life. I fear it will happen on a much more horrific scale the way things are going though.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<Eventually, this stuff is going to end badly for someone. Watch how quickly Palin and others who are fanning the flames will distance themselves when it finally happens. >> Just like O'Reilly did when Dr. Tiller was murdered. He ran away from his "Tiller the Baby Killer" rhetoric so fast, trying to pretend that he never uttered that phrase, ever. None of these clowns ever think about the consequences of their actions. All they care about is how popular and profitable they are, right here and right now. Nothing else matters.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Watching Rachel Maddow tonight is quite sobering. The wackadoodles threatening the lives of Stupak and others in D.C. is appalling beyond belief. These idiots like Palin and Bachmann and the others who are deliberately using inflammatory rhetoric to gin up their base know full well that somebody's going to pull another Scott Roeder and murder one of the Dems in Congress. Bachmann even stated recently on a conservative talk radio program that she wants Minnesotans "armed and dangerous." They aren't stupid enough to not understand where such vitriolic rhetoric eventually leads, so pleading ignorance on their part when a Democratic member of Congress winds up dead is absolutely no excuse. Anyone with half a brain and a modest level of decency would ditch this party by the roadside and register independent. The GOP politicians outside the Capitol who were "egging on" the angry mob who spat on Dems and called out bigoted slurs should be ashamed of themselves, but they're not. They were encouraging this behavior and relishing every single minute of it. If you're still a registered Republican after all of this crap, you might as well be one of the tea baggers who's participating. And NO ONE had better try to equate this garbage behavior with anything that Dems have done in the past. Dick Armey and his ilk are funding these jerks and giving them a well-publicized soapbox to spew this hate. No one on the left ever worked to this degree to advance bigotry and prejudice aimed at the opposing party to this extreme. NO ONE.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones I think the targets mean "target this district and vote these people out" and nothing more. A stupid poster isn't going to make someone fly off the handle, just as video games and movies don't train kids to kill.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Sorry Spokker, those a-holes are for real. I firmly believe this will lead to an attempt on Obama's life.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***I think the targets mean "target this district and vote these people out" and nothing more.*** Yeah, and "don't retreat; RELOAD!" (her accompanying twitter comment) is just a friendly reminder too. <--rolls eyes
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster How about praying for the death of all Congress members who voted for health care reform? <a href="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/the-hilarious-haters/wiley-drake-prays-for-219-cong/" target="_blank">http://blogs.ocweekly.com/nave...19-cong/</a>
Originally Posted By mele People are losing their freaking minds. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/22/bricks-shatter-windows-at_n_508117.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...117.html</a> (not sure if anyone posted this story yet.)
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 Actually, the worst so far has been this: <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/24/fbi-investigating-perriello-incident-in-virginia/?fbid=lnDU_BnNq57" target="_blank">http://politicalticker.blogs.c...U_BnNq57</a> Someone post up the the address of Perriello's brother, thinking it was actually Perriello, and someone went and cut his gas lines to the house. Luckily, the family smelled the gas before anything happened. In their mailbox was a death threat. This is getting seriously ugly and the Republicans need to come out strongly against these violent tactics before someone gets hurt or killed. And I do not mean the half- a$$ed attempts by Boehner and Cantor today. They basically went on and on about how people are angry and are right to be angry and then tacked on a "but violence is uncalled for" at the end of their rants. Enough is enough. We have a very sad history of political assassinations and assassination attempts in this country. The Republicans need to stop egging these lunatics on.
Originally Posted By dshyates I just don't see how Palin telling her stupid, scared, and heavily armed worshipers to reload and take aim at the democratic members of Congress can lead to anything but a re-energized yet peaceful political campaign. Geez, she's not telling people to actually pull the trigger.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Yet, that is exactly what she is suggesting that they do. Palin may play innocent, but innocent she is not. These people are making up the rules as they go and have absolutely no sense of decorum or decency, yet act all pious and "praise Jesus" whenever the cameras are rolling. Palin is dangerous and her antics shouldn't be tolerated.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***I think the targets mean "target this district and vote these people out" and nothing more.*** <a href="http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/files/2009/12/172-0808144214-obama_target.jpg" target="_blank">http://blogs.e-rockford.com/ap...rget.jpg</a> Spokker, I suppose then you consider this picture to be a perfectly innocent "let's target the administration for removal next election", right?
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "Spokker, I suppose then you consider this picture to be a perfectly innocent "let's target the administration for removal next election", right?" Do you propose that the image is mainstream enough to be taken seriously?
