In her stubbornness, in her unwillingness to cede any ground ever, Palin is forced to argue against freedom-stomping straw men.īut we guess this is the mindset you get from being an oppressed minority. In Palin’s world, calls for politicians to tone it down a bit are tantamount to “intolerance of differing opinion” and the “muzzling” of dissent. She can’t acknowledge that there’s any way she should be acting that is any different than how she has been doing things all along. Two hundred years ago, people used to duel each other, so it’s impossible for the political debate in 2011 to have become too intense? How about the nineties? We don’t remember anyone running for the Senate warning of “Second Amendment remedies” back then.īut Palin just can’t give an inch. It’s way better than it was in the 1800’s after all, and that’s a century we always want to measure ourselves against. Though many calls have been made over the past few days for a calmer political discourse, one based on respect for the other side instead of demonization and violent rhetoric, Palin doesn’t see anything wrong with the political climate. Maps with crosshairs on congressional districts are just as innocuous as “proudly voting in the last election,” see? Not only did they not influence Loughner, but they couldn’t possibly influence anyone, ever!īut Palin goes much further than defending her crosshairs. Missing completely though is any acknowledgment at all that, upon reflection, the crosshairs map was inappropriate anyway. In a long Facebook message and corresponding Vimeo video posted online in the middle of the night, mainland-America time, Palin focuses much of her attention on such accusations that, it seems at this point, lack merit. Nearly four days after her notorious map targeting Congresswoman Giffords with crosshairs was alleged by some people to have possibly influenced crazed Tucson gunman Jared Loughner, Sarah Palin has finally spoken.
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