Gabrielle Giffords' father: 'The whole Tea Party were her enemies'

[ProudProgressiveNow]

The father of shot American congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has said that her political stance made her many enemies.
Sarah Palin target map; Gabrielle Giffords' father: 'The whole Tea Party were her enemies'
Sarah Palin had published a 'target map' on her website using images of gun sights to identify 20 House Democrats, including Miss Giffords, for backing the new health care law.
8:56PM GMT 08 Jan 2011

Miss Giffords, a Democrat congresswoman, was shot in the head during a public meeting in Tucson, Arizona.

A lone gunman, described by witnesses as being a white man in his late teens or early twenties, fired into a crowd gathered for a "Congress in your Corner" event outside a supermarket.

Her father Spencer Giffords, 75, wept when asked if his 40-year-old daughter had any enemies.

"Yeah," he told The New York Post. "The whole tea party."

Miss Giffords had been named in March as a political campaign target for conservatives in November’s elections by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for her strong support for the health reforms of President Barack Obama.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/us-politics/8248399/Gabrielle-Giffords-father-The-whole-Tea-Party-were-her-enemies.html

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. it doesn't make sense that a person should be shot for helping people get good healthcare

[gatorboy]

2. It shows how deranged the right has become.

That they threaten people with violence because of friggin' healthcare shows how truly insane they are.

[Angry Dragon]

3. There is not a lot that makes any sense in this country anymore

[Warpy]

4. Nothing about the lunatic right makes any sense, at all

because they're all low information, emotionally driven people who have been suckered by a media empire owned by men who think they're useful idiots come election time.

[cilla4progress]

5. Extremist right-wing politicians and media hacks

are manipulating intellectually weak or damaged people to line their own pockets. They've got the low information Fox news voters convinced health care reform is taking away their constitutional rights. That it's a fight for freedom akin to the American revolution. Like Sharron Angle advised, we need to be ready to "exercise our 2nd amendment rights" if necessary. Guess that's what Giffords' shooter was doing....

Many of us on DU saw this coming.

Damn shame.