Sarah Palin's damage response team is busy running the metrics and polling on possible responses.

[Brundle_Fly]

Oh to be a fly on the wall...

event happened 30+ hours ago... Her silence is deafening.

[Kerrytravelers]

1. How in the world can she spin this with her tired folksy rhetoric?

[GentryDixon]

8. She has FAUX News to take care of that.

[CTyankee]

11. Ms. Giffords surpasses her in beauty and in strength of character.

Palin has met a daunting challenger who, in her wounded martyrdom, has become a perfect symbol of a public servant, a true dispenser of the Constitution, both in word and in action.

Palin has been outmaneuvered by a karma that was waiting for her all along. This beautiful woman, far more beautiful than Palin because of her abiding spirit, haunts Palin and her cronies. The ultimate irony: another woman of the American West, but a woman who inspires, who has a beautiful soul as well as face, a woman who served her people, has determined Palin's downfall.

Palin looks like dust before her. It is only right and proper that Palin reach her political demise in such a fashion.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

2. That's what they do, it's all about her.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. Yeah, Sarah's the real victim here

Everyone wants to blame the acts of one crazy person on this patriotic, God-fearing PILF. Don't they understand how this will affect her book sales and speaking engagements? (sarcasm)

[theothersnippywshrub]

15. She is a professional victim and makes a handsome profit from it.

She will find a way to profit from this.

[Submariner]

3. Her 2 hour Season Finale on TLC tonight

The money hungry wench probably doesn't want to hurt her Nielson ratings. Expect Tweet after the show.

[sakabatou]

4. Season finale?

Didn't TLC not re-up? Or is there going to be a third season?

[PBS Poll-435]

5. Series Finale if I read correctly... nt

[Agent William]

6. How's this for an appropriate response...

"In honor of those fallen in Arizona, who were the victims of rage that I and my compatriots helped foment, I hereby resign from all public engagements and tours effective as of now. I have decided that my silence from here on out is the most effective means of healing the divide in country."

Anything less than that is disingenuous.

[lonestarnot]

7. She's in the basement, trying to get a prayer to the first floor.

[90-percent]

10. Sarah's future

I think This weekend will be the time you can pinpoint Sarah's "Joe McCarthy moment".

Similar to the moment when McCarthy went from a "kill by communist smear" man who ruined lives and careers, to complete irreverence.

This was the "At long last, Sarah, have you no sense of decency?" moment of her career as a public figure of any sort.

This one will be tough to bounce back from. Especially from the lawsuits that may come. Lawsuits seeming very appropriate in this case.

-90% Jimmy

[CTyankee]

16. Oh, yeah...her staffers (soon to be former ones) don't want the Palin stink on them, do they?

gotta get thru the sh*t folks,...

[spanone]

12. if they're smart, they are busy sending out resumes

[Maru Kitteh]

14. +1

[Maru Kitteh]

13. perhaps they are hoping that if she says nothing it will go away.