Reap What You Sow

So the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords really has the shit hitting the fan and it has certain people ducking for cover, the more prominent being former vice presidential candidate and half-term governor Sarah Palin.  The MSM is doing everything they can to make sure that her name is not mentioned at all, even though she is the face behind the eliminationist movement against those who do not measure to some idiotic purity test established by the Tea Party movement. 

So now the media is in on trying to suppress Sarah Palin's name from this, despite the fact that she it was her own poorly chosen words that inspired these actions. Perhaps putting this tragedy on her lap will not prevent the repetition of these acts, but if she wants to make herself out to be this great leader of a puritanical movement, she has to own this or she will be wearing it.

We don't need our own words to bring her down.  She doing a terrific job of doing herself in.  And her cognitive dissonance is going to bring her further down since she has shown herself to be incapable of taking responsibility for her actions.  She will deny it.

Sarah Palin used words to incite violence against those who are in opposition to her ideology.  She used these words not only to put herself over and show that she could be president someday, but to energize her base.  The sad reality is that it seems to take words of violence to energize their base, knowing full well that words of violence can also incite (are you ready for this?) VIOLENCE.  Big surprise, eh?

So this is simply a case of the conservatives reaping what they have sown.  While I do not condone the elimination of diversity among ideologies, those that use words of violence be it metaphorically or otherwise should have no place in the discourse of any country seeking to maintain a healthy democracy.  They do not stimulate democracy, but they sure hurt it.

So once again, Sarah Palin, acknowledge your part in this, repudiate it and disassociate yourself from the Tea Party movement.  If you do not own this, you will have to wear it.  Reap what you have sown, Ms. Palin.