Sarah Palin's InTrade Odds Still In Freefall After Shooting en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Thu, 25 Dec 2014 07:29:03 -0500 Joe Weisenthal kayabasi Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:25:46 -0500 Sarah is downright disappointment and embarrassment to GOP. She is a publicity seeking whore, dumb as one can be, quitter to boot and loves $$$s as seen by starring in pathetic reality show. <a href="">twitter</a> <a href="">sesli chat</a> <a href="">sesli sohbet</a> <a href="">twitter türkçe</a> <a href="">twitter giriş</a> sooty Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:40:26 -0500 The terms psychopath and sociopath are used interchangeably by many experts. Look it up. MikeT Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:58:41 -0500 sooty, Obviously you put a significant amount of thought and analysis into your hypothesis. your thesis is not accurate though. Those things you listed do not make her a psychopath they make her a sociopath. Either way, not a positive path. Parker Knows Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:26:35 -0500 Oh Lookie! A actual statistic! Get away from your mother's computer, she doesn't know how to screenshot that web page! Gmapirate Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:50:04 -0500 This perp you all call a "left wing pothead".... The Pot did not cause the violence.... Sarah Palin always says lets load up... Her verbal and physical being causes violence. At least she pisses me off so much I could get violent, and I am a really peaceful person... Deb Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:38:36 -0500 I don't think the "left" hate Sarah Palin, they just don't understand how anyone could think she is presidential material. I would be embarrassed and frightened to have her represent our country. Beltway Greg Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:09:26 -0500 $500K? Are you on? Name your comfort level. sooty Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:15:49 -0500 Correction: the gun-sight crosshairs were on the states, not on the politicians' faces. "And what is a con-woman to do when she gets exposed?" Going by the emails she exchanged with Beck recently - see <a href=>here </a> - in which she tells him: "I hate violence. I hate war", it looks as if she's going to go for the hippie-trippy peace-loving persona, a 180° turnaround from the gun-toting warmongering mama-grizzly on the attack she was before the shootings happened. Don't be surprised if you see flowers, angels and doves decorating the SarahPAC site ....... Too late, Palin. Accept it, you're toast politically. Your name is mud. No one wants to touch you, not even with a six-foot pole. You're political poison for anyone associated with you. There will be no more reality shows offered to you, and no celebrity spots on TV shows for your family members either. Thank your lucky stars you made all that dough with the books and reality show before it all fell apart. The best thing for you to do right now is just slink away. Parker Knows Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:14:19 -0500 @Christopher: 15 minutes?...(Sigh) I bothered reading your comments but alas I see you are but an idiot!Her name and accomplishments are now in infamy. Not only does she go down in History books as the first woman Republican VP candidate. She had negotiated a Natural Gas pipeline deal that people said was impossible and every politician had failed to do in all the years since AK became a state...That's history! She accidently combined the words refute and repudiate and Oxford put the word in the Oxford English Dictionary because the context actually fit the combination of both words. That's history and amazing! She had taken on the big oil companies that are the most powerful companies in the world to make sure the people were not getting screwed over, making sure safety standards were top shelf, and while still maintaining the importance of continued and increased production, and getting the major share of the Oil Revenues for all the Alaskan Citizens, as evident in the Annual State Oil Revenue Dividend check, aka, PDF, that every single person in Alaska gets, once a year. she had turned a State Deficit, into a State Surplus, for Alaska, and the Alaskan People. Sarah’s successful efforts to stop the cronyism and reform the energy business in Alaska were so impressive Kay Cashman, the publisher and executive editor of Petroleum News, wrote the book entitled: "Sarah Takes On Big Oil". This is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the leadership Sarah Palin has exhibited in the area of reforming government and industry. Because of Sarah Palin's energies and efforts Alaska, the 6th wealthiest state in America is now just one of 4 states in America today that is NOT IN THE RED....and she did it all IN JUST TWO YEARS.! Before being picked as McCain's VP she had already written 5 Op-Eds in major publications including the NY Times. and was already in a documentary film as one of the most powerful women in the world. Young women for generations to come will study not only the 20 years of her being politics but all the accomplishments of this great and amazing woman! She writes in a few characters tweeting and says "Jump" and Washington says "How high"....and she does it with a wink! You betcha! If the above graph is right there are quite a few people gonna lose a bunch of money Nov.3, 2012! radix Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:47:36 -0500 And just for giggles, Sarah, herself, refereed to those symbols as "bulls-eyes", oops. Gary Anderson Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:22:40 -0500 The tone was set for violence. The talk could have affected the guy, but we don't know. Palin's metaphors were irresponsible regardless of the possible effect. We don't know what effect her speech had. She took the stuff down from her website and they know it looks bad. sooty Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:11:58 -0500 To be fair, I have to add that her son's vandalizing property is also just a rumor. NailinPalin Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:20:55 -0500 Didn't Sarah Palin transfer between 5 colleges in Hawaii, Idaho, and Alaska over a 4 year period just to get her undergraduate degree? sooty Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:54:35 -0500 Good. I hope we've seen the last of that con woman. She was a sociopath who was one 72 year old's heartbeat away from being the president had Obama lost the election. America came THAT close to having an antisocial grifter-president. After analyzing her behavior during the campaign and afterwards, I think I have a handle on her psychology. Basically, her psychopathology is she lacks a conscience. In other words, she is a sociopath. Other synonyms for her condition are: antisocial personality disorder, psychopathic personality disorder. In urban parlance: grifter, con woman, fast-talker, swindler, scammer, hustler, cheater, fraudster, con artist. Characteristics: 1. LYING She has been picked up for lying by no less than Republican insiders. When you lie that much, you're bound to have people finding out your whoppers. The facile way with which the lies trip off her tongue is an indication of her psychopathic nature. It shows what a practised liar she is. Needless to say, without a conscience, it is very easy to lie. Steve Schmidt, McCain's campaign manager, caught her telling some lies. <a href=> Youtube clip of an interview with Schmidt talking about Palin</a> <b>"There were numerous incidences that she said things that were not accurate that ultimately the campaign had to deal with and that opened the door to criticism that by some that she was being untruthful and inaccurate, and I think this is something that continues to this day. She went out and said that, "You know, this report completely exonerates me," and in fact, it didn't. You know, it's the equivalent of saying down is up, and up is down. I mean, it was provably, demonstrably untrue - stuff like the independence party her husband had been a member of for seven years - she wanted to put out a statement saying that he was NOT a member of it. He WAS a member of it."</b> And now, she tells yet ANOTHER lie: through a SarahPAC staffer that the graphic on the SarahPAC website did not show gun-sights but "SURVEYOR'S MARKS" ......... She doesn't even have the cajones to tell her own lies - she has an underling do it for her. These are only the lies we know about. What <i>other</i> lies has she told? 2. SHALLOWNESS We can recognize how shallow her political philosophy is: jumping so quickly from the Neocon camp (when she realized it had fallen out of fashion) into the Tea Party camp even though their philosophies were (at first) diametrically opposite to one another. I have to also say it speaks to the weakness of the Tea Party that they so readily accepted her into their party and made her their figurehead. Instead of following Ron Paul's lead (the grandfather of the movement that led to the creation of the Tea Party), they followed Palin's one and seamlessly turned themselves into the neo-Neocon party of war, torture and statism. And in this way, Palin successfully perverted the goals and aims of the Tea Party, and at the same time, showing that under the skin, the libertarians, including the libertarians, the Cato Institute libertarians, the Lew Rockwell libertarians, and the gold and silver patriotard libertarians, were mindless fanboi groupies that folded like lawnchairs when it came to being seduced away from their principles by a silver-tongued confidence woman. This is what con-women politicians do. They are incapable of holding firm and fast to their principles. They jump from one populist bandwagon to the next. This woman sure has a wet finger in the air gauging the mood and trends despite what she says. 3. ANIMAL ABUSE Being a sociopath is why she LOVED hunting. Unlike normal people - people who have a conscience - psychopaths enjoy killing. They enjoy causing pain, and it doesn't matter who or what it is they are hurting - humans or animals - it's all the same to them. That's why so many of them as children have a history of torturing animals and killing them for fun. Antisocial types do the same things as serial killers <a href=> Dahmer, Berkowitz and Ted Bundy </a> did - all known animal-abusers. The link between psychopathic personality and animal abuse is well-established. The feeling of domination and power is addictive for psychopaths. This is what causes many to become serial killers and sadists. Killing animals is more than killing for food (eg. Amazonian Indian) or for a job (eg. an abbatoir worker) for these types. There is a thrill element - a sense of supreme satisfaction these sickos experience when they kill an animal. They enjoy the blood and gore. They like taking pictures of themselves standing over the animal in a triumphant pose, with one foot on the bloodied carcass, and cradling a gun. It is no a accident the killing of animals became the centerpiece of Palin's TLC reality show. The clubbing of a fish, the shooting of a moose - she was just showcasing her true essence to the viewer - what she enjoyed doing as her pastime: the activities that made her tick, made her feel ALIVE, made her feel happy and in her element. 4. THEMES OF VIOLENCE She showed the symptoms and signs of an antisocial personality disorder in other ways. One of these was the increasingly violent nature of her rhetoric against her political opponents. They were her "enemies" and "targets" - to be hunted down, shot down, aimed at, eliminated, scrubbed from the map. She reveled in the graphic nature of her violent political rhetoric, rhetoric that culminated in the appearance of a sniper crosshairs map on the SarahPAC site, which was accompanied by her exhortations to her followers: "This is just the first salvo .." and "17 more to go!" And how can we forget the infamous "Don't retreat. RELOAD."? When she publicly demanded that Obama hunt down Julian Assange with the same urgency as Bin Laden, we know she was essentially calling for Assange's execution. 5. LACK OF EMPATHY The hunting, killing and shooting imagery she employs is not just an accidental result giving way to over-enthusiastic hyperbole. She <i>really</i> does think in those terms. She lacks EMPATHY for others, for human beings and other living creatures. She does not register in her sick mind the effect of what her statements has on others. For example, representative Giffords pleaded with her on national TV to tone down the violent rhetoric - her campaign offices had been peppered with air-gun pellets during the campaign and the mood in the electorate had become hostile and menacing. An Arizona Tea Party candidate had held a gun-loading demonstration in his offices during the campaigning. <a href=>Gifford's interview pleading with Palin to move away from the violent rhetoric and warning her that it could have consequences</a> It was only <b>AFTER</b> Giffords had been shot, six people killed and about a dozen others wounded that Palin took down the graphic of crosshairs on Giffords' and other politicians' faces. There is evidence that she lacks empathy with her own children. She is a careless mother, too caught up in her self-glorifying endeavors, exploiting her children along the way, to care properly for their welfare. She is oblivious to what is going on in their lives, to the extent that her daughter Willow is able to sneak a boyfriend into her bedroom while being filmed for a TV show. Another (then) underage daughter carries on with a guy behind her parents' back, falling pregnant while still in school. A son is caught vandalizing public property ... he is promptly shipped off to Iraq so that he wouldn't have to face court and disgrace his governor-mother .. there are also rumors he was a meth-head - Wassila is known as the meth-capital of Alaska. A psychopath bringing up a generation of antisocial delinquents. Witness her exploitation of her children: feeding them poison on TV so that she could trash Michelle Obama for her anti-obesity campaign. Then claiming that a writer who lived next door had designs on her youngest daughter - as if she cares about her children's privacy! These actions of hers show her as being careless with her children's interests. 6. ABUSE OF POWER She saw "public service" as a way for her to game the system - a way for a nonentity like her, someone with no skills except superior grifting abilities, to make lots of money and have an easy living. And because she is a psychopath, she didn't waste time abusing her office. She wasted no time abusing her power in order to do damage to personal and political enemies. The people of Alaska were not stupid. They weren't going to be ridden over roughshod by this megalomaniac and so they fought back. That's why there were so many charges leveled against her (a record for Alaska, I'd say), resulting in her resigning the governorship, quitting in case her reputation got around and also in case one of the charges stuck. She was the corrupt governor of small-town Alaska - as corrupt as a rotten sheriff of a one-horse outpost in a spaghetti western. 7. AN ACCOMPLISHED SHILL Making a quick buck is always at the top of the psychopath's mind. Her churning out two books in rapid succession, glossing over the many untruths she has told in her career no doubt, is a demonstration of this. The way trite phrases and glib homilies slide off her tongue so effortlessly, her ease with gladhanding, and even her performance in the VP debate show what a skilled performer she is. On the other hand, in situations where knowledge of political issues counts, she performs badly - see the Katie Couric interview. Also, she made the mistake of not rehearsing enough before that interview. Her handlers didn't have the chance to take her through the steps. Unplugged, Palin bombs. A good conwoman is skilled in saying things the public want to hear. They know their marks. They know how to work their audience just like a carnival barker. In keeping with that, she could adopt different personas as suited the occasion. Her personas so far have been "soccer mom", "the straight-talking Washington outsider", "the Republican that got under the Democrats' skin", "the no-nonsense ball-buster", "the pit-bull with lipstick", "the poor woman whose children are in danger from a nextdoor neighbor who's a pedophile", "the Alaskan frontier-woman", "the persecuted Republican governor of Alaska", "the favorite target of liberals" .... Yes, the confidence-trickster would-be-VP had quite a repertoire. And what is a con-woman to do when she gets exposed? There are several options available to these individuals. They are: lying, spinning, blaming, crying victim, hiding, bluffing .... Credibility Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:30:58 -0500 She was a long shot after she dropped from Governor. She has as much influence in the Republican party than just about anyone else. Conservatives love her because she's conservative and she does the heavy lifting. She's the shield that the left vitriol washes over. The lefts insane hatred of her showed up in clear relief this weekend and she came out triumphant. What she gained in stature as a defender of conservatism and bearer of the brunt of liberal hatred, the left lost in credibility. You're rush to judgement is now well documented on thousands of pages across all media. You're irrational accusations displayed to all the paucity of your philosophy has marginalized you even more than Republicans could have hoped. MikeT Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:28:28 -0500 You call him the douche killer. So you are calling the 9 year old girl a douche? I think your application for sainthood will get returned. MikeT Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:24:05 -0500 Excellent attempt at interjecting sanity into the dialogue. Two people actually gave you the thumbs down for not supporting violence. They are probably the next two shooters. nett Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:16:45 -0500 She knew what she was doing, she was just reckless about the consequences and is trying to avoid blame. I think the American voters are smart enough to know that. MikeT Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:10:44 -0500 Are you a lawyer or something? Splitting hairs over cross hairs when everybody who has ever looked through a scope knows what those are. You can name your dog Cat, the other dogs will still know what it is. Those are not crop circles. Crop circles are made by imaginary aliens. MikeT Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:01:58 -0500 Oh come on, I liked Ross Perot and even his attempt at violent rhetoric was cute. "You don't need to form a committee to kill a snake. You get a gun and kill the snake." MikeT Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:53:36 -0500 Wow, all of this hate is just crazy. Don't any of you realize that you are just brainwashed extremists. None of you that have gone to the polar edges of opinion are anywhere close to sane. Obama didn't make this guy shoot anybody and niether did Sarah Palin. Everybody that thinks they know how this idiot was thinking when he did what he did is just implying that they can think like him. I can't think like him, so I don't know where he got his motivation. I am sane. Was it left wing pot smoking that killed those people? Maybe but probably not Was it his ultra conservative uncle Bob sneaking in his room and buggering him at night? Maybe, but since he probably doesn't have an ultra conservative uncle Bob, that statement is as relevant as the BS all you extremeists are spewing. All the left right crap is what is making China get stronger. While you people perpetuate your useless banter, I am going to get some Rosetta Stone software and learn to speak Mandarin (that is a Chinese dialect for those of you that think the world ends at the US border). Sarah Palin is irrelevant. If Obama were smart he would be donating to her campaign. She likes the soapbox that a political campaign gives her so she can see herself on TV. She should just stick to scripted "reality" shows. I believe she recently won an election and was supposed to be Governor of Alaska. When she found out that there was work involved with no cameras present she quit. There is no more a need to vilify her over any other politico who's stock and trade includes violent imagery. If I changed my name to None of the Above, I think I could win an election too. Both sides suck. Our society needs to take responsibility for what we have created. Don't lay blame, take blame and this hate filled dilogue ends. We are all to blame for creating this environment and I feel sorry for what happened to the innocent people that were injured and killed in Arizona. I had nothing to do with it, but I am still sorry. radix Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:50:41 -0500 Isn't it odd that no one, from the Palin camp, ever mentioned, before now, that those symbols were crop markers? Even though they had been described has cross-hairs for months before. DREGstudios Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:46:35 -0500 I have to admit I am glad to see this... agreed, she has had her time in the spotlight. Her rhetoric over the past two years is more hurtful than helpful as are most of the right-wing mouthpieces. Check out my commentary I made on the issue Sunday on my artist's blog at Huh? Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:38:48 -0500 Sarah Palin is a government official? Fail. YOU go home. jamesxxx Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:35:47 -0500 Exactly which public officials were sending out 'death to bush' charts? Exactly which public officials were attacking Palin's children? None. Go home. Liom Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:25:29 -0500 In 2008, the possibility of a person of her intellect and extreme religious views being vice president of the worlds leading superpower was astonishing and made me question the banality of democracy. And perhaps in a society in which the media is polarises every policy decision and diverges from facts; a democracy may not be optimum system of government. Viator Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:14:15 -0500 Wrong on both counts - of crosshairs and crop marks. As the left instantly mobilized to gain political benefit from the tragic Giffords shooting their favorite example was the Sarah Palin "crosshairs" map - for example: They were wrong twice over. Not only was there no connection between Palin and the shooter (who was obsessing about Gabrielle Giffords back in 2007 long before most people ever heard of Palin) except the one created by Democrats and the left for political gain, the symbols on Sarah Palin's map were CROP MARKS, used in the printing business to locate a point. They had nothing to do with crosshairs or rifles. A Google image search for crop marks: Crosshairs look like this: A Google image search for crosshairs: One More Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:11:32 -0500 JL was concerned about a new world order and a need for a gold standard. Much closer to a paultard than anything. You probably don't recall Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:09:16 -0500 that your Father is your uncle either. This false equivalence is shameful. mt keller Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:12:27 -0500 If Palin doesn't think she shares responsibility for her gunsights and "lock and reload" comments she aimed at the Democrats she opposes... why did she take down the gunsight scopes from her website? Why doesn't she just tough it out? And continue to show the nation the great judgment she has. Just the person who's finger you'd want on the nuclear "trigger". Right? RSM Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:55:23 -0500 All of this "blame Sarah Palin" rhetoric tells us more about the left's rabid hatred for Palin than it does anything else. That the liberal media has even thought to tie this to Palin and talk radio WITHOUT A SINGLE SHRED OF EVIDENCE and without ANY FACTS only clearly demonstrates the demons that haunt the imagination of the left. Every story of political violence for the last decade has been committed by a person with liberal or left-leaning ideology, AND YET, they stil insist that it is the right that is violent and hateful. It is the epitome of irrationality and yet without any proof, without any evidence, without so much as a hint of any type of connection, they immediately focus the blame on their imaginary nemesis. Pathetic fails to describe the idiocy of the left at this point . . . . Kevin Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:35:37 -0500 The point I'm trying to make is that using this incident to assign blame/gain political advantage is not only pathetic, but pretty sickening. The blood isn't even cleaned up and they're already on the campaign trail. Sickening. MrSmith Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:34:15 -0500 If someone disagrees with your political views then they are Guilty until proven Guilty...and Republicans are the enemy, bomb throwing you get the point? Highfructose Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:28:35 -0500 Dug you speak without knowing. The crosshairs were not over names, they were only over a map. roger roger Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:24:25 -0500 Well she was not going to get elected anyhow but your yellow journalism suggesting some link with the shooter was libelous! She should sue you Joe! Ozmodiar Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:24:21 -0500 I think everyone is saying both sides need to tone it down. It just so happens that Palin and Glenn Beck's rhetoric has been the most vitriolic recently. Hell, Tucker Carlson called for the execution of another human being (Mike Vick) because of his part in killing some dogs. This even after the man served his time (I guess Christians do not believe in forgiveness). Let's not even get into Palin calling for the execution of Julian Assange. I think the point is, that we are not all brainless morons, and can differentiate this hateful rhetoric and not act on it, but there are a small amount of brainless morons who hear it and kill innocent people, such as a 9 year old girl, a judge, politician etc.. I think the pros of dialing it down out way the cons, don't you? Highfructose Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:23:44 -0500 How about a little honesty in this discussion. See how the liberals have behaved when compared to the Palin cross hairs, or how about the media attacks the Palins childeren, or the Death to Bush chants. This vitrial hit high gear with the liberal Bush attacks. I don't recall a single protester at the Beck rally with a Death to Obama poster, or any conservitive comedian attacking Obama's girls. Civility must go both ways. Unreal Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:09:11 -0500 A few points in the swirling madness... 1) Palin has nothing...absolutely NOTHING to do with the shooter. He was a "left-wing pothead." Or we could use standard left logic to say... 2) Democrat kills Democrat...Republicans to blame! 2) Thus Joe, your continuing desperation to tie Palin to the shooter sets a new low...even for you! which leads me to, 3) Joe, you are the most mustard of the Yellow Journalists on this site. Which subsequently makes you the most yellow in the history of the world. To the commenter above..."If Henry had ethics." Blodgett with ethics? ha! Finally some levity on here. nologin Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:57:25 -0500 liberal based on what? her views? where are the facts? that was 3 or 4 years ago... the rhetoric in past 2 years has changed some minds.. i work with a 24 y/o girl that went from a Hilary loving fem to a tea party radical over her mother's hate for obama. Kevin Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:54:34 -0500 What's the difference? But I guess it is up to your omnipotent, always correct, progressive judgment to decide, right? ObaMao Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:51:32 -0500 One more Jared Loughner is Described by Classmate as "Left-Wing Pothead" A classmate of the man accused of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning describes him as "left wing" and a "pot head" in a series of posts on Twitter this afternoon. dug Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:46:36 -0500 Oh yeah, a general statement is definitely on the same level as putting a rifle scope over the name of an individual on a 'target' list. Left Wing Wanker Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:43:33 -0500 She did shoot Santa's Reindeer at Christmas. Takes a special person to do that. If another one on her list is attacked, that will end the debate. anunymusz Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:43:31 -0500 wow, you americans cant throw away your rights fast enough can you? thats all it took, 1 crazy dude barely outta school to throw free speech into debate, huh? scariest part is i saw the whole "lets use this as an excuse to silence political dissent and encroach upon gun rights" from a mile away, im not even that smart, i just figured "hey, if i im a dictator, and i dont want to lose power no matter how bad i tanked the US, id love to remove speech and guns". but hey, im not as smart as all those honest politicians i guess, am i? whats that quote that applies more every day, something like: "those that would sacrifice liberty for freedom deserve neither", wow, i hope using that quote in public is still ok *turns around* oh, hello agent smith, yes i have been 'commiting speech', owww, those handcuffs are tight.... Lars Svensen Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:42:10 -0500 Sexy Sarah Palin is hot; red hot; super hot; smokin' hot. She is toooooo pretty. Astropig Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:39:35 -0500 Jared Loughner had an altar with some disturbing symbols in his back yard. Jared Loughner had a burning,irrational hatred for Gabrielle Giffords. Jared Loughner was a pot smoking,social misfit that managed to get thrown out of a community college. Jared Loughner couldn't get into the army because of a failed drug test. Jared Loughner was carrying a Glock pistol. So, based on the CONCLUSIVE evidence referenced above...It's Sarah Palin's fault that this occurred. Former CU Writer Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:34:29 -0500 Good news for the GOP's chances in 2012. Bad news for sanity when it comes to dealing with tragedies and evil. Kevin Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:34:20 -0500 'If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun'... Who made that statement? Obviously some ring-wing, tea bagging hate monger. Palin? Beck? Limbaugh? Oh yah, that was Barrack Obama! SID Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:29:20 -0500 Every one in the country is picking sides, and Joe is worried about Sara Palin.... Now THAT'S FUNNY... The story is the apparent upcoming civil war Joe, nobody cares about Palin. Where have you been? Concerned Hedgie Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:27:09 -0500 I dont care what political beliefs he has, he's a friggin pscycho. The death penalty is too good for him. I remember seeing Palin hung in effigy, I hear Obama talking about bringing guns, I cant even tell you how many times I saw Bush on a poster with crosshairs on his face, or his decapitated head on some stupid sign held by some American liberals. Remember all that ? Wasn't all that "hateful rhetoric"? Sounds pretty violent to me. Where was all the hand-wringing and pearl clutching about "toning it down" back then? Oh, wait. They were Democrats doing it! Ok.... ObaMao Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:21:31 -0500 Yeah the douche killer is a leftwing loser! Jared Loughner, Alleged Shooter in Gabrielle Giffords Attack, Described by Classmate as "Left-Wing Pothead" A classmate of the man accused of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning describes him as "left wing" and a "pot head" in a series of posts on Twitter this afternoon. Caitie Parker did not immediately respond to our request for an interview, but her "tweets" in the hours after the shooting paint a picture of Jared Loughner as a substance-abusing loner who had met Giffords before the shooting. She says, Loughner described the congresswoman as "stupid and unintelligent." We've confirmed that Parker and Loughner went to school together at Mountain View High School in Tucson and that both attended Pima Community College, so her claims of knowing Loughner seem to be legit. Parker "tweets" that she and Loughner were in the band together and were friends until 2007 when he became "reclusive" after getting alcohol poisoning and dropping out of college. She describes him as "quite liberal" and as a "political radical." Below is a log of "tweets" posted by Parker beginning around the time of the shooting. ObaMao Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:18:51 -0500 Sarah is downright disappointment and embarrassment to GOP. She is a publicity seeking whore, dumb as one can be, quitter to boot and loves $$$s as seen by starring in pathetic reality show. Last thing we need at GOP is a spoiler bitch like Palin. Remember how Ross Perot costed us a winning presidential election in 1992 against Clinton. Concerned Hedgie Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:18:04 -0500 Wow. The American people are dimmer than I realized. The only one to blame here is the douche who pulled the trigger. All this screaming about "hateful rhetoric" and "tone it down", etc. is such a crock. It implies that we are nothing but brainless morons. For every Sarah Palin "target" map, I can show you reams of vile and "hateful" rhetoric from the Left. Now some dumb politician wants to ban "bullseyes" in political ads and whatnot. What planet do these people live on? Oh yeah, they live in Washington DC. Idiots. rabbe Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:17:58 -0500 do you regret linking her to the shooter without one iota of evidence? If Henry had any ethics he would fire you. christopher Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:15:53 -0500 goodbye....she has had more then her 15 minutes !