Palin and the McCains look like they're trying to work someone up into harming Obama

[bigtree]

How do they expect the people they're stirring up to react to their insinuations that Obama is a traitor and a terrorist? How do they expect their most rabid supporters to react to their warnings that Obama is dangerous?

When are the McCains going to take responsibility for their inciting rhetoric . . . when someone gets hurt?

[redqueen]

1. No, they'll blame Obama then, too.

Just like they're doing now.

[RadicalTexan]

20. The black guy who is the victim of racist violence always gets blamed

Just liked raped women get blamed.

Same old, same old.

[demo dutch]

2. If that should ever happen, we should hold them complicit!

[bigtree]

4. we should hold them responsible for their incitements right now

. . . before someone takes them seriously and reacts violently.

[demo dutch]

6. I'm not seeing anything done, the MSM is having too much "fun" with it

[bigtree]

8. right, CNN has taken to just playing clips of the incitements

. . .without comment or rebuttal.

[dgibby]

12. Not all of them

Andrea Mitchell had a good program today, is very worried about the hatred and anger coming from McPalin. One of her guests, Kathleen Parker,a conservative journalist also expressed concern. Keith, Rachel, and Tweety are all over it, and some major players in the Republican Party are calling for McCain to cease and desist.

[Gato Moteado]

3. those two should be tarred and feathered and run out of every town they.....

...crawl into.

seriously. i wish there were armies of dems at their rallies shouting down their toothless redneck freeper base and instilling a little fear into the white trash.

[floridablue]

5. If even a hint of something like that they should be

given a perp walk from wherever they are and immediately charged criminally with no bail.

[ITsec]

7. I swear, this is the shit they do in 3rd world countries. nt

[bigtree]

9. witchhunting

[Democrats_win]

10. "If they strike me down, I shall become more powerful than they can ever imagine."

Let them remember that idea.

[TahitiNut]

11. Calling himself "maverick" is merely a defense against his RECKLESSNESS.

They're now acting with a reckless disregard for the violence they're fomenting.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Yanno ... I thought that too ..... but how about this ...... ?

They're tanking as fast as Wall Street. They're down into backwash in some states. In an effort to **at least** hold the base, they're feeding generous portions of still warm, raw, red meat.

Yes, it is dangerous. Yes, they probably know that. But they don't care or, if there is an ounce of decency in them, their calculus holds the risk to be low.

Not defending or condoning (for SURE) .... just trying to understand.

[bigtree]

15. I think they'd probably blame Obama, as one poster said . . .

and convince themselves that it was some kind of divine justice.

I get the feeling that all three of them would privately welcome and celebrate ANY demise of their rival. I believe their attitude is driven by their visibly seething contempt for Obama.

[Metta]

14. I agree it seems that way. Where's the secret service in all of this?

nt

[bigtree]

17. They say they're investigating the threats from their crowds

. . . but they need to put the pressure on the candidate, his sidekick, and his spouse to ratchet back their inflammatory rhetoric and even work to repair the damage they've already done. If there was some incident preceded by one of their hateful rallies, I'd sue McCain directly for inciting it.

[hamsterjill]

16. Desperate

The more desperate they get, the meaner they get.

Which makes them appear more desperate...etc., etc.

They certainly aren't using these tactics to appeal to informed voters, that's for sure. I think their tactics are repugnant.

[TooRaLoo]

18. Whenever people yell thier hatred, McPalin say NOTHING.

They are condoning. They are complicit. They are inciting.

[Believing Is Art]

19. Unfortunately,

they aren't doing anything illegal. They take one teensy part of the truth and repeat that. It's lying by virtue of omitting the rest of the truth, but it's not slander or libel. The first amendment gives them the right to say whatever they want as long as it isn't "clear and present danger."

If anything, it's hurting their chances with undecided voters. Hopefully the racist and anti-Muslim feelings they're stirring in their supporters will die off soon after the election. But even if they don't, how could they be held responsible? Morally reprehensible and illegal are two different things.

[bigtree]

21. well, they can be held to account right now

. . . politically

They could be run out of town and hounded into whatever hole they can find to hide in.

[Believing Is Art]

23. Yeah,

And I'd like to see one of the in-depth shows, like 60 minutes or something, have the balls to do a piece on race relations and anti-Muslim sentiment in America and the McCain camps involvement, but, oh well.

No one will run them out of town. Their non-reluctant supporters are bigots, and hounding a presidential candidate is risky business, probably not worth it.

I wish they'd stop it. The country doesn't need this. But it seems like the only sane thing to do is let them suffer in the polls and let time heal the wounds they're opening.

[bigtree]

22. I'm kicking this because I'm pissed and worried. I think this needs all the sunshine we can manage

I know some folks will shy away from elevating this notion, but I'm not much of a believer in keeping quiet in the face of bigotry and demagoguery and waiting for good sense to prevail.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

24. I posed the questions you asked in the OP to a freeptard...

I think they are stumped in providing a legitimate comeback or excuse for such behavior. Well done, bigtree.