M E M, it's offensive how far beyond reality you reach just so you can ATTEMPT to rationalize "well, Republicans do it too."
No, Republicans don't.
1) The "target" sights on opposition candidates to beat in an election was begun over 30 years ago by Bob Beckell in the 1984 presidential election. It WASN'T begun by Sarah Palin or any Republican, nor was it done with the violent hatred of the opposition you consistently see directed by Democrats at Republicans (severed head of Trump, fantasies about Trump's assassination by various means, hatred directed at Trump and his supporters as evil/Nazis/vampires that have to be resisted and stopped by any means, and screw the rule of law that he was fairly elected.)
2) In the case of Rep. Giffords shot by Jared Loughner, it cannot be argued Loughner was motivated by "right-wing rhetoric" because he was a LEFT-winger who wasn't even listening to right-wing rhetoric anyway!
There is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE, ABSOLUTELY NONE that Loughner ever attended a right-wing meeting or ever so much as glimpsed a right-wing website, and every online web-browse was fully investigated on his computer by police after the shooting.
It is an offensive lie that you even try to float that as a possibility, M E M.
Likewise:
- George Zimmerman: labelled falsely by Dems and the liberal media as a white racist NRA-type right winger, but turned out to be a registered Democrat who voted for Obama, who is also black and Hispanic, whose primary language at home is Spanish.
The Sandy Hook, CT elementary school shooter: also a liberal. Also labelled falsely initially as an NRA right-winger.
The Aurora, CO movie theatre shooter. Also falsely labelled as a right winger motivated by Tea Party rhetoric, who likewise turned out to be a left-winger with no Tea Party connection.
L.A. cop-killer Christopher Dorner, who like Hodgekinson last week, was an avid MSNBC/liberal media viewer who CLEARLY sourced the liberal media pundits he praised for their rhetoric, who CLEARLY was motivated by their "RESIST / NOT MY PRESIDENT / Republicans are evil and have to be stopped by any means" rhetoric. As in the Dorner case, Democrat rhetoric is undeniably the source of Hodgekinson's shooting spree in Virginia, complete with a written hit-list in his pocket of Republican congressmen he went to the baseball field to kill. The liberal media's only recourse is to selectively omit the facts and not report the clear Democrat-rhetoric motivation!
It's infuriating how you and other Democrats not only ignore the true facts, but manufacture a clear lie to blame Republicans.
Only ONE side incites mob rule and killing their opposition, and it sure as hell is not the Republicans.
