Sarah Palin’s latest gaffe started last Tuesday when she tried to rally her troops in the face of her party’s crushing defeat on health-care reform by posting a United States map with gunsight icons marking districts of Democratic congressmen she has targeted for defeat in the fall.
Along with the map of gun targets, Palin added, “Don’t Retreat, Instead — RELOAD!”
Now, in one of the most transparently false attempts at spin we’ve seen since the Bush administration left town, Palin is trying walk back what she intended to convey by releasing a map that certainly appears to be a hit list.
She rolled out the walk-back in Bush country — at a rally in Midland, Texas. “‘Take up your arms’ means voting,” Palin told the adoring crowd.
Of course, she didn’t say “Take up arms.” She said, “RELOAD!”
At a campaign rally in Arizona for her running mate in 2008, Sen. John “Grampy” McCain, she read the line again:
“We know violence isn’t the answer. When we take up our arms, we’re talking about our vote.”
What we learned during the Bush administration is that normal Americans have limited patience with this sort of horse hockey — especially instances like this when it’s obvious the spinner is working on the assumption that everyone listening to her is stupid.
Of course, Palin’s spin is not, sorry, targeted at regular Americans. She thinks she’s speaking just to the half-wits who worship her. It doesn’t matter to her now that the rest of us are listening — but we are.
That’s horse$hit, and she knows it. I don’t really care about this wack0, but it galls me that she’s becoming wealthy behind all this criminal and stupid behavior.
Do the people who listen to crazy Palin really listen??????
Yesterday at the tea baggers meeting all she spoke about was the constitution, they all had signs about the constitution.
This was when she said ‘we don’t want a constitutional law professor lecturing us from a lectern.
At the time she was lecturing – from a lectern!
You guys need to get out of your liberal bubble. Democrats used the same device on their own website in the last few months. Targets. Wow.
On the other hand you guys are real good at demonizing. Hatemongering. or whatever.
Nice try, Eric. You need to supply sourcing for the claim that “Democrats” (the DNC? a Blue Dog Dem in gun country somewhere?) used gun sights to mark targeted races on their website, or we’ll just assume you or your right-wing thought masters are just making stuff up.