Conservative "Values"

My Arse

This is not your grandfather's Republican Party and he would be horrified.
It is not the elevation of ignorance to some cultural norm that is so worrisome --indeed it is but what is worse is this: the beligerent defense of aggressive in your face confrontation with taunting malice and allusions to acceptable violence that heretofore dignified politicians would be totally ashamed to associate themselves with much less defend their right to use on First Amendment grounds. For the information of people who were NOT Constitutional law professors like the President, the First Amendment is not an unfettered absolute right and many qualifications exist. A person may not incite a riot. A person may not yell "fire" in a crowded theatre unless there is one-people are reasonably expected to stampede and it could forseeably harm the public.
That is what we are dealing with here. The same kind of incendiary rhetoric whooped up and trumped up like a junior high pep rally to incide a mob mentality that is reasonably forseeable to send someone a little "off" quite off the range.
Palin is totally responsible for this sort of 'in your face' confrontational politics.
We have seen abortion doctors murdered. We have seen now a sitting Federal Judge attending a Democratic Congressional town meeting murdered. We have seen a Democratic Congresswoman who was clearly targetted shot in the head.

And the best we can do is say- can't we all play nice now?
No- there has to be some serious accountability for this sort of thing. It is NOT First Amendment protected when it reasonably may be forseen to incite violence-and that appears to be what is intended.
Find your Cahoonas Obama. We don't tolerate incitement to murder or attempted murder on the part of anyone.
At best the sort of language coming from the right wingnuts is highly negligent. At worse, it incites murder- and there ought to be a law against it. There is NO such constitutional right in the America by My Heart.
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postscript and note to EPPC Fellows:
Look at the Billboard that Limbaugh had up which was taken down thank goodness-http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/13/rush-limbaugh-straight-shooter-tucson-billboard-stirs-controve/?icid=maing%7Cmain5%7Cdl2%7Csec2_lnk3%7C36372
What is the point of that? What is the point of something this over the top militant?
Do people not realize that things like a psycho shoot up rarely if ever happen in the civilized world like England where police (bobbies) don't even carry weapons for the most part. We have an insanely weaponized society in America. This has to be reversed-and it is completely irresponsible not to recognize it.