But, given the agenda of the Left, the Department of Homeland Security, and Main Stream Media, these simple sentiments need to be restated.
While Americans grieved, the Left did not wait until the bodies were hauled off to start using the attack to suppress the free speech of their ideological opponents. Before the names were drawn, the first smear victim was Sarah Palin.
Palin had "targeted" Giffords’ race and used a crosshairs over Giffords’ district on a website map.
After such a tragedy, this metaphor looks unfortunate. However, this is hardly fair. In 2004, the Democratic Leadership Committee issued an almost identical map with similar bulls-eyes on Republican districts they hoped to pick up in Red States, which they referred to as "behind enemy lines" .
For that matter, the liberal DailyKos wrote that Giffords is "Dead to me" after she voted against Nancy Pelosi for House Minority Leader last week.
