SARAH SPINNING

UPDATE:

AIDE TO SARAH PALIN, REBECCA MANSOUR ASSERTS, “OUR CROSSHAIRS MAP HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH VIOLENCE OR GUNS.”

Uh huh.  Good luck to you with that explanation.  Unfortunately, Ms. Palin herself has undermined her aide’s rationalization last November following the election when she bragged that her PAC had defeated all but two of the Democrats she had targeted with what she referred to as her “bull’s-eye list.”  BULL’S-EYE LIST?!!

How pathetic that this Palin aide is now trying to explain it all away as a “misunderstanding” and that the cross-hairs image was never meant to evoke guns or violence, when crosshairs images are usually associated with gun sights.  The aide claims it was “simply cross-hairs like you’d see on maps,” and that “we never, ever, ever intended it to be gun sights.”

This dodge will not work, not when Palin herself tweeted a message last March about her “cross-hairs map” she’d posted on her Facebook page — tweeting:  “Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America:  ‘Don’t Retreat, Instead — RELOAD!’  Pls see my Facebook page.”  A clear message linking the “cross-hairs map” with guns.

Unlessssssss, well perhaps Ms. Mansour now wants to try to redefine the word RELOAD to mean something other than guns … I don’t know, maybe RELOAD your PEZ dispensers???  SPIN SPIN SPIN.