Dave Burris:
At the end of the day, none of us are innocent. We’ve all either spoken inflamed rhetoric or stood silent as someone else did, particularly those on our own side.
But each of us has it in our power to improve the situation. We could start right now, if we wanted to. I’m certainly going to try.
Unstable Isotope:
I’ve yet to see a former Democratic VP candidate put out a map with rifle targets. Or a U.S. senate candidate talk about “2nd amendment” remedies. Quit the lazy “both sides do it” bullshit.
Everyone single statement above is true. Yes, both sides engage in violent rhetoric. The difference is, per UI’s point, is that violent rhetoric was espoused by the leading Presidential frontrunner of the Republican Party and by all the leading Republican commentators like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, rather than lowly self important small state bloggers like myself.
The way to start improving the situation is to have Sarah Palin offer an unqualified apology for her violent rhetoric, as I offered back in September 2008.
Sarah Palin wants to be President of the United States. Now is the time for her to follow my lead. When you are wrong, when you have engaged in violent rhetoric, you apologize. Without qualification or excuse.
If a small state blogger can do it, so can Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin.
Until the apologies are made, we cannot improve the situation. It will only deteriorate from here.