[Cincinatus' Wife]

Below is material from a link in the blog post above (there is more good commentary in Toby Harnden's piece along with several good links).

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"Memo to Paul Krugman and Rep. Van Hollen: My Search Was Not in Vain (Updated)" --Posted by John on March 31, 2010 at 8:37 am

In last Thursday’s column, Paul Krugman admitted to having fun watching “right-wingers go wild.” One of the things that apparently delighted him was this map which Sarah Palin posted on her Facebook page:

Each of the cross-hairs represents a Democrat from a conservative district who voted in favor of health reform. Immediately after highlighting the map, Krugman wrote:

"All of this goes far beyond politics as usual…you’ll search in vain for anything comparably menacing, anything that even hinted at an appeal to violence, from members of Congress, let alone senior party officials….to find anything like what we’re seeing now you have to go back to the last time a Democrat was president."

Really, Paul? I’ll search in vain?

The map appears on this page of the Democratic Leadership Committee website (dated 2004 during the Bush years). I guess we could argue over whether the DLC counts as “senior party officials” but they’re certainly as much a part of the party as Palin who, after all, currently holds no elected office.

Granted these are bulls-eyes instead of gun-sights, and the targets are states not individual congressmen. But we’re really splitting hairs at this point. This map and the language it uses (Behind enemy lines!) are, if anything, more militant than what Palin used in her Facebook posting.

But wait, there’s more!

When Palin’s map became an issue, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, leader of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), rushed on MSNBC to denounce it, telling Chris Matthews:

" I really think that that is crossing a line…In this particular environment I think it’s really dangerous to try and make your point in that particular way because there are people who are taking that kind of thing seriously."

Really, Chris? So what do you think about this map?

Each one of those red targets represents a “Targeted Republican” like this one:

There’s even a helpful legend that makes it clear that’s precisely what the little red targets represent:

You’ll never guess where I found this map. That’s right, it’s on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) website. They launched the site and the map on February 23rd of this last year, making it just over a month year old. And yet Van Hollen was quoted by Politico just today denouncing Republicans for “pouring more and more gasoline on the flames.” Right back at you, pal.

Rep. Van Hollen used MSNBC to claim Palin’s map was dangerous. In fact, the website of the organization he runs has a nearly identical map. Rep. Van Hollen should be asked to explain the differences between the two maps. Specifically, what makes Palin’s map “dangerous” and his map not so much?................. Source found in Toby Harnden's piece above

[markomalley]

I don’t see why Toby should be surprised. After all, it’s just the left’s typical M.O.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

(I posted this at the article)

It seems what we are witnessing in America is a kind of death match of primal forces. In Freudian terms, the “id” of politics (the Left)—the pleasure seeking aspect which refuses to recognize good or evil—is attempting a coup against the political “ego” and “superego” of the electorate.

On an individual level, this is a common rite of passage...a battle to the finish which occurs any time an adolescent grows into adulthood. It isn’t pretty and it isn’t painless...but the end result is a butterfly compared to a caterpillar.

That said, I can’t recall this happening so obviously on a national level. This national phenomenon must be due to the fact that information and news is now instantaneous and permeates much of the population in its immediacy. Connectivity has transformed our nation, perhaps our world, into a single unit such that it behaves as a giant individual human.

In the end, despite all the destruction and gnashing of teeth, maturity will carry the day. If our species is to survive, it must.

[RetSignman]

Let me get this straight, a LEFT WING LIBERAL nut job goes on a killing spree and they have found a way to blame CONSERVATIVES?

These liberals are souless.

[Clyde5445]

SARAH PALIN'S PING LIST> BLATANT LSM DOUBLE STANDARD>

[2nd amendment mama]

Bookmarked

[MV=PY]

How could Obama have allowed this tragedy to happen??

(thanks for the research)

[Jane Long]

Thanks for gathering/posting this.

I'm sure ALL Rino's on today's Sunday shows will be doing their homework (HELLO) and providing this in Sarah's/conservatives/Tea Party defense./s

[Jim Noble]

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?"
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

[Walts Ice Pick]

From what I’ve seen of this guy’s writings, he’s probably what doctors call a paranoid schizophrenic. Politics have little or nothing to do with his problems.

[jpsb]

Nice work CW, very nice work.

[Sun]

Mainly, Loughner’s a nut, but more of a leftist, than anything. I first found this out on FREE REPUBLIC during the night. I find out more on FR than even Drudge. Of course, Drudge has to sleep, but FR never sleeps. There are always FReepers awake every minute of the day to inform us.

[Political Junkie Too]

Many people attribute West Virginia's then-Governor Joe Manchin's Senate campaign ad ("Dead Aim"), where he shot a rifle bullet through the cap and trade legislation, as turning the election around for him.

Pundits heralded the ad as clever and convincing for Manchin. Nobody called it "vitriol."

-PJ

[Jet Jaguar]

Dateline NBC still blaming Palins map.

On now.

[Mr. Mojo]

Krugman admitted to having fun watching “right-wingers go wild.” One of the things that apparently delighted him was this map which Sarah Palin posted on her Facebook page

I can see Krugman and his ilk obsessing over every last one of Palin's Tweets and Facebook postings. She OWNS them, lock, stock, and barrel.

[gibsosa]

thanks for the link.

[Terry Mross]

The republican/conservative guests on these shows should have copies of these maps and show them on every T.V. show they go on. I wonder how Chissy and smart @$$ Van Hollen would have responded.