Posted on 01/19/2011 10:45:17 AM PST by markomalley
Former Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) places blame directly on Sarah Palin and Republicans for last week's deadly Arizona shooting in an email to supporters on Wednesday.
Grayson, a one-term Democrat who was ousted by Rep. Daniel Webster (R) by 18 points in November, is widely expected to run again in 2012. And while the note isn't an explicit appeal for money, there is a "contribute" link at the bottom of the message.
"When I opened my web browser yesterday, at yahoo.com, there was Sarah Palin, smiling at me," Grayson writes. "'Oh God,' I said to myself, 'what has she done now."
Reacting to Palin's defense of her controversial video on the Ariz. massacre and use of the phrase "blood libel," Grayson writes: "That's interesting, I thought. What else might Palin be defending? Cannibalism, maybe?
Grayson goes on to offer his own summary of Palin's appearance on Sean Hannity's Fox News show: "Palin: I am so misunderstood. Hannity: I am so misunderstood. Palin: I am so misunderstood."
Grayson says not only was Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz), who was critically wounded in the shooting at her "Congress On Your Corner" event, wary of Palin's rhetoric, but that the former GOP vice presidential nominee used the same "crossfire" symbol against him.
"Even before I heard earlier Palin's whining about 'misguided finger-pointing' and 'irresponsible statements from people who are apportioning blame,' I thought about this: Palin came to my district, and told her people to 'take me out.' Palin told people again and again, 'don't retreat, reload.'"
Running down threats to him, Grayson says one of his five-year old twins "received a telephone death threat intended for me" the day before last March's health care vote.
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Weird Alan shows up a little late to the Palin Pig Pile.
On the whacky nut-job spectrum, I suspect that Alan Grayson isn’t too many shades away from Loughner.
If you believe Palin caused Tucson, you MUST believe islam caused 9/11....
Go away, Alan. You suck so bad you just didn’t lose last November, you were CRUSHED.
IIRC, Alan Grayson has a bit of a violent history.
Great post.
Says a fool that spent four days in the Psychiatric Institute of Washington.
Grayson had to be deemed “no longer a threat to others” before he could be released from the mental hold.
Mark should take the case on SP’s behalf and sue Grayson for everything he’s got. If he wins, every penny of the settlement should go to SarahPAC.
Maybe Grayson and Fuller can share a padded cell, and trade tips for scoring with chicks through hypnosis.
MSNBC is keeping this POS in public. (To the extent anybody sees MSNBC)
There’s a better case that Alan Grayson was the shooter’s inspiration. Grayson is way more “incivil” and incendiary than Palin, and certifiably insane like the shooter.
It would be better to keep him around instead... He’s the poster-boy for how out of touch and completely ignorant a great deal of these ultra left-wingers have become.
In the past there were always intelligent liberals about, offering at least a saleable reasoning to their wrong-headed and idealistic views. Now it’s just a bunch of buffoons like Grayson and his elk in the media at MSNBC, spewing foolishness and absurdity. Everybody knows they’re whacked, and your past election proves it to be true… Keep them about and they’ll help you win another in 2012.
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