“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”The left is so predictable...
-- Barack Obama
"Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is dead to me now."
-- Daily Kos Kook "BoyBlue"
“Those aren’t the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.”
-- Barack Obama
‘We’re going to punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us’
-- Barack Obama
An unstable man whom former friends describe as a leftist, goes on a shooting rampage, and the liberal commentariat calls him a tea partier. The news media-Democratic establishment-nutroots Axis of Weasels crank up the predictable blather about guns, rightwing hate, talk radio and the "dangers" of free speech.
Can lefty logic really be this flawed?
Some town hall meetings got heated last year, fueled by irate tea partiers... The shooting happened at a town hall meeting... Ergo tanto cum sum ipso factoid, reducto ad Palin.
Following this same logic, we can completely repudiate environmentalism and global climate change by merely citing Ted Kaczinski's enviro-rantings and bloody attacks.
Millions motivated to vote--None to commit violence
The tea parties moved the middle this last election. Independents who elected Obama two years ago recoiled in horror at the Democrat agenda and brought a resounding victory to Republicans at the state, local and national level. If the tea parties really are the font of rightwing violence, why haven't we seen many such attacks? If they moved so many to go vote Republican, why have they been such a failure at inciting racial and politically-motivated violence?
You don't attract America's broad middle by preaching hatred and violence. You open a dialog and you talk about ideas and fundamental principles, which is what the tea partiers did. People are fed up with all the spending and mandating, and non-ideological people turned out and voted to trust the GOP one more time.
Let's Talk Consequences...
We have children condemned to third-world life in inner city slums and failed schools because of the Democratic party's war on poverty and pandering to teachers unions. We have multi-generational poverty because the democratic party treats the poor like children, giving them housing, food stamps, rewards for unmarried pregnancies. They give the poor everything but the wherewithal to take care of themselves. Why? Because liberals do not trust these people to take care of their own lives; they'd just screw it up, so the democrats destroy their lives for them.
This was not a Palin-directed tea party hit.
It was a crime. Murder. Speaking of which, why is it that liberal gun ban bastions like California, Chicago and New York experience so much more violent gun crime than open carry states and cities? President Obama rightly called the Tucson incident an unspeakable tragedy. Now, can we also focus our attention on the unspeakable tragedies that happen every day in our crime-riddled inner cities, where good people are prisoners in their own homes?
No. It's more fun to engage in free-wheeling speculation and unfounded charges. The rhetoric of the left has come untethered from fact and reason and now floats aloft on an updraft of of hot air and imperious high dudgeon. They have no problem with that kind of free speech.
Worse, such back and forth obscures the real issue: We have violent and crazy people walking among us. This murderer had several run-ins with the law and those who interacted with him thought he was crazy. Why was he not locked up or at least evaluated?
I pray for the souls that perished in that attack and I pray for the swift and full recovery of Rep Giffords and the other victims.
