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How about if we say that all of that is over the line? Anyone on either side suggesting or even hinting that the right way to deal with a political opponent is with a weapon is behaving badly, in my book. >>
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>>Tamar, just a yes/no....do you think the Palin crosshairs map is "suggesting or hinting that the right way to deal with a political opponent is with a weapon"?
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>Yes. I'd put that in the "hinting" category.
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>Tamar
What would you think of a statement like "If they bring a knife to the fight, we'll bring a gun." ?
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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