This didn’t take long – from Politico:
One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce legislation as soon as Monday…
National tragedy, don’t know what happened yet, people are still clinging to life and may yet die…and here comes a Democrat, trying to work it to political advantage. All too typical, I’m afraid…and the story goes on to note that another Democrat is considering legislation which would make it illegal to use words or symbols which can be construed as threatening to a Congressman…I guess that reading of the Constitution failed to get through to some Congressional brains. Neither, I guess, did the recent Supreme Court rulings about the right to bear arms being an individual right…
Have at it, Democrats – use death and destruction for your own ends. Never let a crisis go to waste, right? But this time, Democrats, you are walking right in to your own trap.
UPDATE: Seeking political advantage and using the tragedy for fund raising. Democrat class on display…
UPDATE, by Matt Margolis: Today I received an email from a former Democrat candidate for congress, Beth Krom, who ran unsuccessfully last year in CA-48… Why I am on the list, I have no idea, but the email opened with the following:
In two short years, we’ve gone from the aspirational vision of America reflected in President Obama’s campaign to the angry, frustrated tone conveyed by the Tea Party. The tragic assault on Rep. Giffords in Tucson exposes the dangerous situation that now exists in America as a result of the highly charged anti-government rhetoric that drives political discourse today. The shooting spree was not an event, it was a wake-up call.
Yada, yada, yada. This email, sent at 11:38:19 AM EST has come after it has been revealed that the shooter was actually a left-wing pothead, and not some fanatic tea partier, as the media has tried to imply from the moment the story broke. I’m not trying to feed the fire here, but I think it is worth noting we should keep an eye out for actual candidates (not just political groups) who not only exploit the shooting for political purposes, but try to raise money off of it. I’m on a lot of email lists for candidates… this is the first one I’ve received from a candidate (albeit one who lost, but keeps her campaign list active) but I doubt it will be the last.
UPDATE: Obama in 2008: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” And yet, the left claims Sarah Palin is to blame because of a graphic?
UPDATE IV: War Room calls for political civility. No, I’m not kidding.
UPDATE V: Did the Pima County sheriff ignore the threat?
UPDATE VI: Facebook has taken it down, but Vodkapundit has the screen shot of the Kill Sarah Palin page.
UPDATE VII: If at first you don’t succeed…a Sarah Palin Should Die Facebook page…
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