They were map marking icons and not cross hairs last I had heard.
You have anything that says otherwise? Show your hand.
It was clear in March that they were bullseyes and nobody in the palin camp made any effort to change that perception until after the shooting. Trying to spin away from it now just looks childish.
It was stupid then. A bunch of us here said so, and for this exact reason.
This is not to say that palin is in any way even the slightest bit responsible, she is not.
But it would be encouraging to see her supporters here act like adults and say, "yeah, maybe that wasn't the smartest image to use..." instead of bending over backwards to avoid the facts.
It doesn’t matter whether they were “map markers” or “crosshairs.” None of the marks, none of the maps, none of the rhetoric had anything to do with the shooting. Our language is full of non-violent references to targets, crosshairs, re-loading, etc.
I won’t backtrack one single inch. We ought to continue to keep left-wing politicians “in the crosshairs” and “target” them for defeat.