Sarah Palin's "Crosshairs" Ad is Focus of Gabrielle Giffords Debate - ABC News:
"...No connection has been made between this graphic and the Arizona shooting, but it has put the Palin team somewhat on the defensive. Rebecca Mansour, a spokesperson for SarahPac, told conservative commentator Tammy Bruce, 'We never imagined, it never occurred to us that anybody would consider it violent.' Insisting she was speaking for herself, and not on behalf of Palin, Mansour added, 'We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights.'
However, following the initial controversy over the 'crosshairs' last year, Palin issued her now oft repeated rallying cry, 'Don't retreat. RELOAD...'"
Nice tap dancing, Tammy, but the GOP has been pouring gasoline on the ground since the first Jesse Helms campaign way back when. Now the Tea Party has started adding jet fuel to the mix, so don't act all surprised 'n shocky when a spark ignites the whole mess and both the innocent and the guilty get burned.
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