Sorry, but our VP candidate, unlike yours, did not put a bullseye on someone's district. Our leaders in Congress don't accuse the opposition of having a secret plan to exterminate millions of elderly Americans, a la Germany circa 1940. We did not urge our followers to bring guns to the other party's presidential rallies. You folks embrace your nuts and elevate them to the highest levels of your party and your propaganda organs. Our nuts are low-level aberrations, your nuts are nominated for VP. Sarah Palin is not akin to an anonymous commenter on a liberal blog. Both sides don't do it.
NYT:
Representative Raul Labrador, a freshman Republican from Idaho, who had Tea Party support, cautioned the host, David Gregory, about drawing connections between the anti-big government rhetoric of the fall campaign and inexplicable acts of violence.
“We have to be careful not to blame one side or the other because both sides are guilty of this,” Mr. Labrador said. “You have extremes on both sides. You have crazy people on both sides.”
Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat, went further in suggesting that Republicans commentators bore greater responsibility for increasingly incendiary rhetoric.
“Those of us in public life and the journalists who cover us should be thoughtful in response to this and try to bring down the rhetoric, which I’m afraid has become pervasive in our discussion of political issues,” Mr. Durbin said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Then, in a clear jab at former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Tea Party groups, Mr. Durbin said, “The phrase ‘Don’t retreat; reload,’ putting crosshairs on congressional districts as targets, these sorts of things, I think, invite the kind of toxic rhetoric that can lead unstable people to believe this is an acceptable response.”
