Posted on 01/14/2011 5:47:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Say one thing for Sarah Palin: She heeds her own advice.
Coming only days after Ms. Palin was drawn into the Arizona shooting drama, news that the former Alaska governor and potential presidential aspirant will headline a gun-friendly hunting convention Jan. 29 fits her famous stump phrase: "Don't retreat, reload."
It is a philosophy that defines Palin as a political figure and also points to how closely her own public persona echoes that of the American gun culture she promotes. Just as the gun-rights community has prided itself on not backing down from any challenge but rather thriving on adversity to win broader victories, Palin has once again answered her critics with confrontation this week.
To critics, it is one of the traits that makes Palin unlikely to succeed as a presidential candidate. To backers, however, it sets her apart.
For Palin, perhaps, it was only natural to envision 20 congressional districts ripe for a tea party takeover last November as targets marked by cross hairs. The fact that one of those targets was Arizona’s Eighth District, and the fact that the district’s Democratic representative, Gabrielle Giffords, was shot in an apparent assassination attempt Saturday, made Palin and her map a topic of debate only minutes after the shooting.
Palin acknowledged she had prayed about what happened in Tucson. But in taped remarks issued Wednesday on her Facebook account, she also lambasted her media critics for committing "blood libel" by making a "reprehensible" insinuation.
She might as well have taken a page from how the gun-rights movement has reacted to challenges against it during the past 20 years.
The gun lobby's relentless campaign
Despite mass-shooting tragedies like the one at Columbine High School in 1999 and Virginia Tech in 2007, for instance, the gun lobby and gun owners never paused...
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Just like Obama is everything to everyone Palin is nothing but a set of negatives even if they are contradictory.
Hee hee..... she sure gets them all wee weed up!
Notice that when conservatives answer a charge and give facts it’s a “confrontation”.
>> made Palin and her map a topic of debate only minutes after the shooting.
BS. The Left recklessly and willfully incriminated Palin for its seething hatred of her.
>> Notice that when conservatives answer a charge and give facts it’s a “confrontation”.
Exactly.
I stopped reading at the lib writer’s use of the term “gun culture.”
Just more lamestream media noise...
- JP
I stopped reading at the lib writer’s use of the term “gun culture.”
Just more lamestream media noise...
- JP
The press is trying it’s best to incite violence. They are irresponsible clymers.
She did not, and I'm tired of this lie being repeated endlessly.
She put “surveyors symbols” on the map.
Although there would have been nothing at all wrong with putting “cross-hairs” on a map if you were “campaigning” to “knock off” political opponents in swing districts.
Any Republican that is stupid enough to fall for the faux cry for “changing the heated rhetoric” B.S. deserves to be actively targeted for extinction in their next election cycle.
We need candidates willing to stand and fight tooth and nail to discredit the left wing morons, not ones willing to join hands and sing Kumbaya while they drag our nation down the sewer hole of communism.
The Left has the ability to talk out both sides of its mouth - it can get away with lofting defamatory vitriol while pleading for civility. The GOP is not that skilled, nor should it be.
In the battle for the middle, the GOP has to be careful about seeming indifferent to the faux cry for “changing the heated rhetoric”. A skilled statesman would transform that hysteria into a meaningful objective, but that GOP has no real statesmen. Consider that lack of stately condemnation in regards to the attacks against Palin. As far as I’m concerned, those elitist jackwagons in the GOP favor her political and possibly personal suffering.
even these jerks can’t get it right: MRS. Palin
Sarah Palin shows leadership here, they don’t like that one bit at all, and that is her strength both for a proper direction here for America and for America abroad.
Apparently some people are beginning to see the light, they just might see her as someone as a fighter than an apologizer.
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