Palin put Arizona Congresswoman into the Crosshairs.

[karadinart]

Gabrielle Gifford, a democratic centrist congresswoman now in the hospital as the result of an assassination attempt (which killed six including a Federal Judge and a nine year old girl) had her office vandalized a few hours after the House voted to approve the health care law in March, with someone either kicking or shooting out a glass door and window.

In an interview after the vandalism, Giffords referred to the animosity against her by conservatives. Sarah Palin listed Giffords' seat as one of the top "targets" in the midterm elections because of the lawmakers' support for the health care law.

Gifford said in an interview with MSNBC - "We're on Sarah Palin's targeted list, the way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they have to realize that there are consequences to that action,"

Sarah Palin grew criticism when she first released the target list in Marc 2010 with some speculating it may prompt unbalanced individuals to act out. Sarah Palin had tweeted with the target list, “Don’t retreat, instead Reload.”

*post edit* Ms. Palin’s team are currently scrubbing her Facebook page of all negative comments,blocking any users who haven’t pledged unequivocal support, even those who gently suggest that violent political rhetoric needs to be re-examined. she loves democracy.

Comments

[ashura-oh.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I suspect she's a puppet put in place to draw people's attention on her while even worse shit goes on in the back.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I think if she was a puppet she'd be better handled, and not make the stupid mistakes she does - I think people wanted to make her a puppet, but she goes her own way, and the lack of education and experience shows.

[ichibanseiken.livejournal.com]

She's from Alaska. Still a frontier state where guns are as common as frying pans (and for a good read, check out www.stabenow.com; Dana Stabenow is an Alaskan mystery writer who is, in a word, awesome).

So...knowing what I know about Alaskans, and the info Dana Stabenow harvested from local papers about Palin and how she got to where she was (shudder...I am as qualified to run for VP as she is!), there is a stubborn, do-it-yourself streak permeating Alaskan culture. If you can't fix your own gear (truck, snow machine, plane, gun, furnace, chain saw), people will look down on you. Nobody up there will be "handled". I actually respect that trait. However, it explains a lot about SP: where she got the grit to get to where she is now, as well as how come she is such a loose cannon.

Didya know she got the idea of running for a Vasilla town commissioner in an aerobics class? Word got around...in a small town where everybody knows everybody, votes received election junk mail for the first time in their lives. She won, overreaching the budget by millions, spending the money on a gym instead of a water treatment plan (and she built the gym on a land which's title is under dispute, costing further millons in legal fees).
She caught the eye of the GOP, got snagged for some oil watchdog appointment, wasted further millions and gave a lot of jobs to her friends, then ran for governor. The rest is history.
If she wasn't so damn charismatic we wouldn't have this problem.

Anyhow. Off to work.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I'm sure being in Alaska has a lot to do with how she got where she is, but I think she's a transplant, anywho, she probably wouldn't have gotten to the governorship if there had not been a political scandal to take advantage of, and I'm not certain to this day why she gets the media coverage she does, more celeb than civil servant, after all, she's never finished a job she was elected for, the same as she went to five colleges before getting a degree.