Palin 'has been vocal about condeming violence,' aide says

[sabra]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) - Sarah Palin's team is fighting back against some Democratic claims that the former Alaska governor is encouraging threats of violence against members of Congress who voted in favor of health care reform.

Democratic officials and liberal Web sites are upset that Palin used an image of crosshairs in a Facebook post this week listing 20 vulnerable Democrats who voted for the legislation. She plans to target them this election year with money from her political action committee.

One House member mentioned the Facebook posting during a Wednesday meeting on safety concerns, a Democratic source told CNN's Dana Bash. Mention of the map brought audible groans to the room, the source said.

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Sen. John McCain, who tapped Palin as his running mate during his 2008 presidential bid, defended Palin's Facebook posting on NBC's "Today Show" Thursday.

"I have seen the rhetoric of targeted districts as long as I've been in politics, please," McCain said. "Any threat of violence is terrible but to say there that there is a targeted district or that we reload or go back into the fight again, please, those are fine, they are used all the time."

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/25/palin-has-been-vocal-about-condeming-violence-aide-says/?fbid=VP2LgjjHQ1T

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An image on Sarah Palin's Facebook page featuring crosshairs on certain Democratic districts is causing an uproar .

[msongs]

1. yah mccain use to target all those women who were NOT his wife at the time lol nt

[livetohike]

2. I've never heard anyone say "Reload" when referring to an upcoming

election season. Enough can't be sad about her despicable attempts to stay relevant.

[Happyhippychick]

3. Oh really? What does "don't retreat, reload" refer to?

[Barbara2423]

4. McCain/Palin are both dumb.

[goclark]

24. McOld is getting worse by the minute nt

[pundaint]

27. I prefer mute

[No Elephants]

5. Hey, McCain, "You lie" and your little dog, too. "Reload" plus crosshairs are NOT standard

operating procedure.

Palin, "You lie," too. You have not been vocal about condemning violence. To the contrary, you did your best to incite your fellow rednecks all during the campaign.

Both of you, sit down and shut up, like the losers you are.

[nyc 4 Biden]

6. I know they are big words. But I think Palin's team are mixing up...

condemn and condone again. Honest mistake.

[defendandprotect]

7. "RELOAD" is condemning violence . . . ????

[Crowman1979]

8. Well excuse me, Mrs. "I like to shoot wolves from airplanes" Palin!

[kestrel91316]

9. LIE. Palin has been vocal about encouraging violence.

Exhibit #1: "Reload."

Ehxibit #2: Map with gunsighted targets of Congressional reps.

[maxsolomon]

10. this is your brain on 2nd amendment absolutism

palin isn't rovian enough to have considered that it could be an incitement to violence.

she just thinks in firearm terminology, so does todd, and so does her staff.

[greiner3]

12. Palin doesn't write her crap;

republicans have ghost writers penning anything that comes from her, audio or Internet. But I'm sure you knew that.

[maxsolomon]

15. hence the staff reference

but it does reveal the mindset - they THINK in terms of firearms. even mccain, who dismisses the implied threats.

[Soylent Brice]

11. Palin has been vocal about being uninformed, hate-filled, and all around full of shit. n/t

[glinda]

13. She is guilty and tons of video to prove it and web postings.

[my2sense]

14. Yes, and I fart rainbows....n/t

[louis-t]

32. I tried to learn how to do that.

Never got the hang of it.

[madamesilverspurs]

16. Even Palin isn't too stupid to know when violence

is being invited. But she expects us to be too stupid to catch her at it.

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[Raschel]

25. +1

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

17. Let's turn the table around and put the crosshair on some teabaggers...watch them scream!

also I wonder how McCain would feel if a crosshair was on New Mexico?

[Crowman1979]

20. I'm sure the crosshairs will be on them once the FBI or local SWAT team pays them a visit.

[David__77]

18. The extreme right must be isolated.

The most important thing is to divide the right at this time.

[ChicagoSuz219]

19. Maybe she condemned it on her planet...

...on this one, not so much.

Big surprise - John 'whichever way the wind blows' McCain is trying to step back now from his remarks.

[judesedit]

21. I wish they'd spare us the bs. We've had enough. Those people give Christianity a bad name

I'll bet they've never even read the Bible. Just carried it around to fool their sheeple base. Absolutely disgusting all of them.

By the way...Palin ALWAYS encourages violence with her racist rantings. Never once told the truth about all of the lies she spews either. She just lets them ferment to the boiling point. And as for the "targeted districts" and "crosshairs". I've never seen them used in this blatant a display before and I'm 61 years old. There is no disputing what it signifies. Pay attentionn people, especially to "nutjob" crap like their into. You never know when they're not going to like something you do or don't do. Thank God for Obama.

[pundaint]

28. What gave them a good name?

[panzerfaust]

31. The children of the Church

[ecstatic]

22. Where is the audio? If she has been vocal, why haven't I heard it?

Lying %^@%^@

[FlyByNight]

23. The only thing she seems capable of being vocal about...

is repeatedly exposing her own willful, intense ignorance. Thanks, old man, for foisting this dizzyingly stupid figure upon the American political stage.

:puke:

[DAMANgoldberg]

26. The better eay to make your point...

if you are Sarah Palin or these types is to place a push-pin, x, even a generic "target/bullseye" (as long it's not red, that's trademarked) will get the point across that you want those people to be dismissed from office. Of course, this would take thought, brain power, intelligence, and civility, attributes of which this crowd is in very short supply.

[NYYFan]

29. And yet

I'm noticing that her "map" hasn't changed. SMH Way to "condemn violence", Sister Sarah.

[panzerfaust]

30. Says She'll Kick Your Ass If You Don't Agree.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. In a pig's eye she doesn't

I pig with lipstick's eye that is.