Sanders puts Tucson attack in fundraising crosshairs.


Title written with (fully justified) malice aforethought.

Senator Bernie Sanders – the socialist Senator from Vermont who we’re supposed to pretend isn’t a socialist because the Democrats get upset about us bringing up the entire ‘socialism’ thing – has decided that the best way to handle last weekend’s attempted assassination of a Congresswoman (and the murder of six people, including a nine-year-old girl) is to send out a fundraising letter blaming the whole thing on the right wing.

Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the country. I also want to thank the very many supporters who have begun contributing online to my 2012 reelection campaign at w ww.bernie.org…

[several paragraphs' worth of Left-pornography]

…??In light of all of this violence – both actual and threatened – is Arizona a state in which people who are not Republicans are able to participate freely and fully in the democratic process? Have right-wing reactionaries, through threats and acts of violence, intimidated people with different points of view from expressing their political positions?

Bernie Sanders’ answer is, of course, “Not if you give me money!”  That the attacker was a 9/11 Troofer who opposed the war and believed in shadow conspiracies – which is pretty much Sanders’ fund-raising base right there – is irrelevant to the Senator’s purpose, which is to transfer as much money from the pockets of the gullible to his own*.  So is the charmingly naive bourgeois notion of ‘human decency,’ which might have otherwise kept the Senator from Vermont from engaging in this behavior.  Nope: this is about bringing in the cash by making people afraid and hateful – which would be ironic, except that anybody who is a voluntary socialist in America is dead to the concept anyway…

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Just in case nobody’s ever told Senator Sanders – or his friends, supporters, and/or admirers: raising money off of the corpse of a nine year old girl?  Vile.  Thinking that raising money off of the corpse of a nine year old girl was a good idea?  Also vile.

*Hey, just because Bernie Sanders is a socialist doesn’t mean that he’s a good one.


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Look forward to this getting much smarmier and much more slimy, Moe.

romeg Tuesday, January 11th at 5:44PM EDT (link)

As Congresswoman Gabrielle’s condition improves the tendency to use her as a front for their fund-raising schemes will get worse. MUCH worse.

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis

 

Leaving out the moral bankruptcy of Sanders for

throwback59 Tuesday, January 11th at 5:50PM EDT (link)

a moment, I’m amazed that all these self-avowed socialists are so concerned with money and status.
Last week on O’Reilly, Roseanne Barr (or whatever she calls herself now), immediately after proclaiming herself a socialist, said she offered to buy her son a Lamborghini if he learned Chinese.
As for Sanders, I think I would trust another Bernie- Madoff, with my money before the Vermont senator.

 

At least this ugliness is getting the statist freaks

johnt Tuesday, January 11th at 6:03PM EDT (link)

out of the closet, the power mongers, those who pray for repression and jail for the Normal People. And so we see who the real fascists are, and no surprises. They’re getting nuttier by the minute.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

I wonder when the Congresswoman wakes up...

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 6:39PM EDT (link)

and sees how her “friends” in the Democrat Party USED her horrible experience to raise money how she will feel about that. She is somewhat “Conservative” in her thinking and in such should be appalled and disgusted, I know I am.

Sadly, all she'll get is spin.

bjwilson83 (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 6:46PM EDT (link)

I doubt they’re briefing her on how events are progressing right now.

You are right, I am afraid.

spainishirish (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 6:55PM EDT (link)

The cynical hypocrites who compose the current national Democratic Party, and I’ll be blunt, have only two things in mind re Giffords:

1. Whether it is time to stop the exploitation and staunch the backlash; and
2. How to fill her seat with another Democrat if she doesn’t recover.

Yes, I said it. They are that cynical and cold. My deepest prayers are for her well-being, but that is secondary to many of these people. It is all about power. I would love for Rep. Giffords to recover fully and denounce the excesses of her party, but I’ll take just the former if it comes down to it.

yeah...that's their main concern...how they'll fill her seat...and GOD help any Republican that has the temerity to run for it nt

AceInTX (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 8:03PM EDT (link)

If the worst pans out, there will be a GOP candidate

spainishirish (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 8:23PM EDT (link)

given how atrocious the local and national Democrats have acted. And, yes, that Republican will be demonized for, as you said, just having the temerity to run. The vicious SOB’s will tie whoever it is to the shooter, and the left-wing media echo chamber will shout it far and wide. It very well might not work, but that is what will happen.

I agree nt

AceInTX (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 8:46PM EDT (link)
 
 
 
 
 

This article from BigGovernment.com

DerKrieger (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 6:51PM EDT (link)

…ought to be required reading for the good Socialist from VT: http://biggovernment.com/jperren/2011/01/10/how-to-eliminate-inflammatory-right-wing-rhetoric-2/#more-214900

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison

Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690

 

I'm proud of Bernie Sanders.

Tbone (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 8:38PM EDT (link)

The first rule of salesmanship is: “Know Your Customer”

If your customers are scum suckers, you give them scum to suck.

Bernie should be giving marketing seminars. Go Bernie!

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

 

Speaking of crosshairs,

proudmarinemom (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 8:43PM EDT (link)

Moe, please forgive this being slightly off-topic.

Someone posted this on Malkin and I think it should be spread around: The USGS uses a topographical symbol on maps to designate “Principal Points” which is nearly identical to the “crosshair” symbol shown on the congressional district target map on Sarah Palin’s site. Here’s the link (sorry, don’t know how to tag it):

http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/symbols/

Your link is unhelpful

LiveStronger Tuesday, January 11th at 9:32PM EDT (link)

I don’t see anything in that link that has anything to do with a symbol that looks like crosshairs in a targeting scope.

Also, even if that were the case, it is very hard to argue that Palin’s website had anything other than targeting scopes in mind when it listed its “20 Top Targets”.

It is perfectly in line with Palin’s practice of showing that she has the swagger to run with the boys.

However, no sane person would argue that Jared Loughner, who lists Barack Obama and Che Guevara as his heroes, spent any time at all on Sarah Palin’s PAC website. The guy was a leftist. Not a liberal. A leftist.

Liberals LOVE government. Leftists hate it.

Ruth Ginsburg = liberal

The SLO = leftist

FWIW, leftists tend to be more supportive of the 2nd Amendment than liberals.

Romney Republican

No, it is helpful.

swami7774 (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 9:54PM EDT (link)

Page 2 under ” control data and monuments.”
The site markers are clearly visible.

It’s irrelevant, however. Loughner wasn’t incited to kill by some website he never read.
And anyway, Palin’s scope sights are no worse than the interactive bulls eyes on the DCCC site that was scrubbed about 2 hours after the shootings. That site not only identified GOP congressmen as ” targeted”, it showed pictures of the targeted.

Today, there is a name for the political doctrine that rejoices in scarcity of everything except government. The name is environmentalism.

Those so called crosshairs on Palins map were surveyors markings.

va5thdistrict Wednesday, January 12th at 4:58PM EDT (link)

A friend is a surveyor and he says you can tell the difference because the lines extend past the outer edge of the circle and are used to assist in measuring. Anyone that has used a scope knows that the crosshairs do not extend past the edge.

We should not dignify this

mspector (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 5:16PM EDT (link)

business about Palin’s map, and certainly not by trying to say that the symbols were surveyors’ symbols (which they may or may not be). Frankly, that just sounds evasive and defensive. Since neither Sarah nor the Tea Party nor Republicans in general have nothing to be evasive or defensive about, why play the game?

The map identified congressional districts with Democratic representatives “targeted” for replacement by Republicans. The symbol was a metaphor for that. Nothing more, nothing less. Maybe distasteful, maybe not, but only a metaphor. Unless and until someone can show that Loughner saw the map (which he most certainly did not) AND that he read the material you would go to following the links in the banner at the top of the page (which he most certainly did not), the whole thing is just a distraction.

It’s a distraction the left wants us to pick up on, because every word that we say in response to it only tends to confirm that the map, somehow, is related to the shooting. It is not, so we need just to let it go: Jared Loughner is deranged, that’s why he shot Giffords and the others, and the liberal and socialist left is showing its true colors with their ghoulish hypocrisy. Period.

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” (Thomas Paine)

“A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.” (Ronald Reagan)

 
 
 

Ginberg is a baby killing machine like most Liberals.

Tbone (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 10:41PM EDT (link)

Liberals love government because it is the tool they use to oppress people and steal from producers to buy votes from the leeches. Kinda the way Romney thinks, isn’t it?

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

Governors govern.

LiveStronger Wednesday, January 12th at 11:50AM EDT (link)

It is their job. Mitt Romney was elected to govern Massachusetts not to complain about the mere existence of government. Given the circumstances he faced, I think that he did a great job. Had Mitt Romney been a Catholic or an Evangelical Christian, he’d probably be president right now and my taxes would be lower.

Romney Republican

Had Mitt been a Conservative

Tbone (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 2:21PM EDT (link)

he might have been President now. As it is, he could become a Catholic a lot easier than becoming a conservative.

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

Perfectly phrased, Tbone

eburke (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 2:56PM EDT (link)

So…do I risk banning for agreeing with you publicly? :-)

“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

Unified Patriots

 
 
 
 
 
 

You know, there's one good thing about Bernie Sanders.

froster (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 9:17PM EDT (link)

At least he’s honest enough to admit he’s a socialist.

Republican from California.

 

BHO was Laughner's hero

LiveStronger Tuesday, January 11th at 9:24PM EDT (link)

So says the International Business Times using Laughner’s myspace page as its source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/99161/20110110/jared-lee-loughner-who-is-gabrielle-giffords-congresswoman-arizona-shooting-charges-court-motive.htm

Here’s the quote: “Was he a leftist? His personal heroes include Venezuela’s communist leader and arch enemy of the U.S. Hugo Chavez as well as iconic revolutionary Che Guevara. But it’s much more complex than it looks – his list also includes President Barack Obama!”

Romney Republican

 

Is This The Same Sanders?

Superheater (Diary) Tuesday, January 11th at 10:53PM EDT (link)

Who a few weeks ago indignantly intoned when is enough, enough?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-mcr4kBFYo

Sure looks like him…

 

Let's not forget that Sanders was at a hearing

TNJim (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 1:20AM EDT (link)

with Tom Harkin where the topic was Guaranteed Retirement Accounts, or GRA’s that would seize 401K’s to bail out faltering pension funds. Connie Hiar wrote about this back in October last year:

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee heard from hand-picked witnesses advocating the infamous “Guaranteed Retirement Account” (GRA) authored by Theresa Guilarducci.

[snip]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was the only other senator at the hearing with Harkin. His particular brand of gutter class warfare was on full display as the self-described socialist made the absurd claim that wealthy job creators oppose the Social Security system because it “works.”

“So, the reason that there is so much opposition to Social Security for some of these billionaire guys is because Social Security has worked. It has done exactly what it was supposed to do. It has worked for the elderly, for the disabled, for widows and orphans,” Sanders said in his opening remarks.

In typical leftist drive-by fashion, Sanders never explained why he believes successful people don’t like the elderly, disabled, widows or orphans.

And, of course, the theme of the day was “fairness” as it’s somehow “fair” to take what one person has earned in the free market and give it to another in a government-run wealth redistribution retirement scheme.

Of course the plan would also require mandated contributions from us working stiffs much like you’re required to pay into Social Security as Hair explains elsewhere in the article.

As of this writing I haven’t had time yet to see if it gained any traction in the lame duck session, got sneaked into something else, or if it’s scheduled to be brought up this year.

Typical socialism from typical socialists like Sanders and Harkin.

Activism: What to do after the TEA party rally. Unified Patriots

 

STOP reacting!!

rsturm Wednesday, January 12th at 9:06AM EDT (link)

Puh-lease… STOP reacting!!

This whole attack against the Right is nothing more than a CYA for the Left….. their chance for a riteous ‘get-back’ for all the losses they took with the true success of theTea Party election in November!!

BUT thanks to OUR CONSTANT ragging and whining, our dragging in the Professionals, …and foot-stomping ..and finger-wagging on the hypocrisy of their mean, and unfair name-calling….. now look at how successful they have become!!!

All we had to do was laugh at their childish antics,TELL the TRUTH…. and then just let them wallow in their own rhetoric-smearing mud-fest !! Instead we have added weight and given substance to this NON-TOPIC of what was the hidden cause that an insane man acted insanely.

We all know the Left will feel about as much shame for their fake-attack on the OUTSPOKEN defense of our freedoms and our constitution by Beck, Rush and Sarah, as they felt for being caught red-handed as part of the Socialist framers of our current downs-spiraling economy & government.

Let the new Congress stop their frivolous attempts to derail our 1st and 2nd Ammendments now, or at least slow them down until reinforcements come, from the 2012 elections. Let’s put this whole horrible episode behind us and move on to the BIG stuff, like health care, and the Fed money-printing that is cutting us off at the knees, etc., etc…..

Exactly, rsturm....

mspector (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 5:49PM EDT (link)

Every response only dignifies the initial attack.

In the courtroom an attorney will sometimes choose NOT to cross-examine a witness for the simple reason that doing so will give that witness’ testimony an importance the jury may not otherwise give it. We must be willing to do the same thing here.

Besides, we have apparently won. According to a CBS poll Monday night, 52% of the general public does not think political rhetoric had anything to do with the shooting, 47% of Democrats agree, and independents also agree by 56 to 33%. It’s over. All the liberal haters can do now is slobber on their own shoes. We on the other hand can move on.

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” (Thomas Paine)

“A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.” (Ronald Reagan)

 
 

In time of Crisis the left always shows it's true colors.

ihateliberals Wednesday, January 12th at 11:29AM EDT (link)

Their true color always comes out YELLOW. The left is yellow in tht they never have original thoughts. The only way they can counter any statement that makes them look bad is to point the finger in some other direction. Immediately when Ms. Giffords was shot there was no concern for Crystal from the left they only wanted to make sure the Right got blamed for the shooting. Even today after it has been proven that Loughner was a Liberal and after Crystals father had made a statement that he did not want this to turn into an anti-gun situation, the left is pushing that the reason for the shooting is the gun laws and the rhetoric from the Conservative radio host. They do not want to miss a chance to lose a bad situation to promote their agenda. They do not want the truth to interfere with them.

 

Sanders Dangerous?

diksum Wednesday, January 12th at 11:37AM EDT (link)

I think we need a petition to get Bernie Sanders committed for mental observation. I see in him the same potential for violence as Jared Loughner based on his irrational ramblings and ideology. Maybe also Dennis Kucinich.

 

You'd think that after examing this it wouldn't be something the left would want to exploit anymore...

anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Wednesday, January 12th at 12:15PM EDT (link)

Kook left fringe conspiracy nut goes after easy to access person at local town hall type of meeting. What happens when more of those with a similar mental setup start seeing (in their view) corruption and exploitation by politicians of their side as “just as bad they’re all the same”? Or even worse for everyone is the view of some conspiracy setups is that their really is no left/right it’s all choreographed etc…

By pushing anything to hurt Bush regarding 9/11 (and the war efforts and just about literally anything else he did or supported) the left has set us all up for more of the same from more like this guy.

How can we prevent more of this sort of tragedy? Not much that can be done beyond talking to people on the fringe and making them challenge their own assumptions and reason themselves back from the abyss. Good luck with that. Otherwise the two alternatives are do nothing or report anyone “strange” for a possible future crime…

Razz Etc!
“Best Poker book written ever!!!” – Author’s unbiased opinion…

 

we need to defend with the FACTS

bus2dc Wednesday, January 12th at 3:43PM EDT (link)

The inflammatory rhetoric FROM THE LEFT and from Congressional DEMOCRATS today has only increased. It is despicable. There will be NO “come to Jesus” moment this evening with Obama, none. He will either speak in vague nothingness or stupidly – albeit in “code” – slam the right for hate-speech.

There is an overwhelming abundance of examples which we have collected, captured, filed and reference in just the last 2 years alone that can easily prove if is the LEFT that calls for blatant violence and spews hatred and death-wishes upon conservatives at every opportunity. We NEED to fight this insanity. We have the tools in the videos and interviews collected online or on-air. USE THEM. POST THEM. Press talk-radio to play them

We are not in kindergarten fighting the bully in the back of the class over stealing our lunch money. This is our COUNTRY being stolen, and ANY thought of quieting down against this tirade of LIES from the left must be fought for our families, our future, and our forefathers. Period.

 

I wonder what people would say if the NRA did the same thing?

va5thdistrict Wednesday, January 12th at 4:47PM EDT (link)

Can you imagine what a field day the press and the left would have if the NRA decided to use this tragedy to raise money to defend the gun rights that they know will be under attack after this incident..Yet half the Democrats along with moveon.org and the other lefty groups will not hesitate to use this to raise money.

 

B. Sanders

1stsgt Wednesday, January 12th at 9:12PM EDT (link)

He wants people to contribute money for him to run for office. Confidentially I would not donate the perspiration from my testicles to that scum bag.