Why couldn't she just say 'libel' if she really thinks she's being LIBELED

[K8-EEE]

Why do they always have to stick in a little extra offense and violence? At the very least she's a DRAMA QUEEN. Not fit for office.

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. She's into guns, violence, blood, etc.

[SharonAnn]

13. It was a "dog whistle" to her Religious right-wing base.

[Shagbark Hickory]

15. Exactamundo. She's speaking the language of the psychopath

I bet she was a "Goth" kid in high school.
Gloom and doom all the time with her. Never any hope.

[JoePhilly]

2. She wanted the "new" chosen people of the Tea Party to know what she meant.

[bushisanidiot]

3. She's trying to please her followers by using violent imagery.

they eat it up. and sarah pac is probably making lots of money off of her choice of words as we speak.

"don't retreat, reload!"

"death panels"

"pals around with terrorists"

"blood libel"

[K8-EEE]

4. Well if there was EVER A TIME TO REFRAIN FROM THAT

Or rise above it, now is certainly it -- she just proved she can't do it!

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Violent dog whistle.

She should be careful. These people listening to her are unstable. They will turn on her faster than one can blink an eye.

Then we will be talking for a week about unintended consequences.

I have been nervous about political rallies since the 2008 election season. I don't know that I will go to another one again.

[Xipe Totec]

6. She's claiming the mantle of the Tea Party as an oppressed people

A Blood libel is a calumny not of an individual, but of the entire Jewish community.

By implication she is claiming that:

1.- The massacre in Tucson did not happen
2.- The Tea Party is not responsible.

Otherwise, it does not make any sense to claim blood libel.

[FirstLight]

7. Libel is actually the wrong term...

Libel is for published works...SLANDER is verbal/spoken

[K8-EEE]

8. Oh right, good point!!

Even worse then! I guess "blood slander" didn't have a scary enough ring, how about "death panel slander?"

[somone]

11. Her Department of Law says if she says it, then it's correct

[HereSince1628]

9. Unlike Popeye, for Palin enuf is never enuf! n/t

[EFerrari]

10. Because she can't stop trying to incite hatred just like she can't stop breathing.

I hope this puts to rest the idea that the right wing doesn't do this on purpose.

[K8-EEE]

12. Yeah it was like a test to see if there was anything else there

BESIDES the tacky rhetoric and apparently the answer is, NO!

[baldguy]

14. Because "blood libel" just *sounds* worse.

But she has no idea what it really means.

[japple]

16. I believe that, too. I think she truly doesn't have any idea what

she has done.

[K8-EEE]

17. I agree she just was prob like "ooh blood libel, that's awesome!"

God people actually want this clueless fool to be the President of the US???