dishonesty

The far right in this country is obviously terrified by their fairly clear implication, through their violence-laced rabblerousing and their militant campaigning for the relaxation of all restrictions on gun ownership, in the Tucson catastrophe -- which, let us not forget, is just the latest in a long series of massacres the country has had to endure for the sake of not upsetting these virulent, responsibility-shucking infants lest they throw an even noisier and more socially destructive tantrum than their usual.

So the meme has become one of claiming Loughners was really a leftist and/or of blaming liberals for pointing out the obvious connections rather than going along, yet again, with the far right's blatant lies.

Why am I so sure they're terrified? Well, here's a poll just posted by the wingnut site One News Now (run by the American Family Association, so you know from the outset this isn't likely to be honest):

What's your response when liberals use tragedies like the Tucson shooting to argue for more restrictive gun-control laws? (related article)

1. <input ... >Typical liberal reaction
2. <input ... >Guns are not the problem - people are
3. <input ... >Read the Second Amendment, please

If these . . . specimens actually had the courage of their convictions they'd be posting a poll that offered the reader some honest options -- i.e., options that disagreed with the atavistic political views of the editors of One News Now. The fact that they don't is, it seems to me, pretty solid evidence that they're frightened of facing up to the truth . . . and of letting anyone else do so.