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Sarah Palin pushes back against the hateful Left.

From an accompanying Facebook essay...

Like millions of Americans I learned of the tragic events in Arizona on Saturday, and my heart broke for the innocent victims. No words can fill the hole left by the death of an innocent, but we do mourn for the victims’ families as we express our sympathy.

I agree with the sentiments shared yesterday at the beautiful Catholic mass held in honor of the victims. The mass will hopefully help begin a healing process for the families touched by this tragedy and for our country.

Our exceptional nation, so vibrant with ideas and the passionate exchange and debate of ideas, is a light to the rest of the world. Congresswoman Giffords and her constituents were exercising their right to exchange ideas that day, to celebrate our Republic’s core values and peacefully assemble to petition our government. It’s inexcusable and incomprehensible why a single evil man took the lives of peaceful citizens that day. ...

Let us honor those precious lives cut short in Tucson by praying for them and their families and by cherishing their memories. Let us pray for the full recovery of the wounded. And let us pray for our country. In times like this we need God’s guidance and the peace He provides. We need strength to not let the random acts of a criminal turn us against ourselves, or weaken our solid foundation, or provide a pretext to stifle debate.

America must be stronger than the evil we saw displayed last week. We are better than the mindless finger-pointing we endured in the wake of the tragedy. We will come out of this stronger and more united in our desire to peacefully engage in the great debates of our time, to respectfully embrace our differences in a positive manner, and to unite in the knowledge that, though our ideas may be different, we must all strive for a better future for our country. May God bless America.

- Sarah Palin

Of course University of Tennessee Law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds was first to note the Left's rush to blood libel, in this Wall Street Journal editorial dated Monday. He wrote thusly...

With only the barest outline of events available, pundits and reporters seemed to agree that the massacre had to be the fault of the tea party movement in general, and of Sarah Palin in particular. Why? Because they had created, in New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's words, a "climate of hate." ...

To be clear, if you're using this event to criticize the "rhetoric" of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you're either: (a) asserting a connection between the "rhetoric" and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you're not, in which case you're just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. Which is it?

I understand the desperation that Democrats must feel after taking a historic beating in the midterm elections and seeing the popularity of ObamaCare plummet while voters flee the party in droves. But those who purport to care about the health of our political community demonstrate precious little actual concern for America's political well-being when they seize on any pretext, however flimsy, to call their political opponents accomplices to murder.

Where is the decency in that?

Markos Moulitsas, of Daily KOS infamy, was the very first out of the gate, spurring on his foul minions to hate-speak against Sarah Palin. But by no means was his Twitter response unique. Seems some of his flock has moved to death threats and death wishes.

There was a video posted (as Preston Taylor Holmes of 6MB puts it, "The Diseased Heart of the Left") that captured the 'tweets' of some of the worst Sarah Palin haters; some wishing her death by shooting, others wishing her to die slowly and torturously of cancers and whatever. The video was yanked down by YouTube, but I captured some of those tweets for the posterity of the thing. More of the scurrilous scumsuckers than I want to post here, but the worst offenders need the light shined on them, so as the cockroaches they are they can scurry for cover. A shame their mothers can't wash their foul mouths out with soap.














Enough for now. More, later, if I have time.

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