Earlier this month a bullet was fired at Lou Dobbs' home in New Jersey. Earlier this year, an abortion doctor (George Tiller) was killed while attending church. Rush Limbaugh was stopped from making a profitable investment in the St.Louis Rams because of false accusations regarding racist comments. And there have been a couple arrests regarding plots to assasinate President Obama.

Listen up, everybody, Left, Right, and moderate: KNOCK IT OFF!

If there is something that you disagree with, killing, attempting to kill, or hurting the individual financially is not the answer. To paraphrase the above mentioned Rush Limbaugh, Republicans and Democrats are not equatable to "bloods vs. crips". This is not gang war fare. The colors red and blue, while on the streets of LA may be gang colors, DOESN'T MEAN that we should be taking pot shots at each other.

I mean, come on! Do I really have to be even typing this post? Has politics really stooped to such a low? On this subject, even Kevin and I are not immune to such child like attacks, although to date these attacks have only been verbal. Please, everyone, before you begin loading guns or making remarkable personal attacks, take a deep breath, think for a minute, and then pound your head into a wall. Will that help? Maybe not. But if you happen to take my advice be sure to put it up on YouTube.

Archived Comments

Kevin Tracy
We had an interesting debate about the George Tiller case, but here's what's bothering me. Generally speaking, Democrats and Republicans are politically moderate. We've just chosen to over focus our attention on the small things that divide us rather than the greater themes that unite us.
Yet, there are some individuals out there on BOTH sides of the political divide who are behaving like Nazis and Communists in Germany's old Weimar Republic. Unless you are a radical about an extremist cause, there is no need to resort to violence in a politically moderate culture such as ours.
Keep up the good work, Travis.

Wickle
I've been saying this for some time. Sadly, there's a segment of the population that considers it being soft on principle to refuse to hate a person.
I was told that I was a liberal because I didn't hope for Ted Kennedy to die painfully.
Having said that, Limbaugh is part of the problem. He's no better, and usually worse, than anyone who might have maligned him. As long as he's the single loudest voice on the Right, don't expect things to get any better.

Travis Gearhart
As far as the Ted Kennedy thing is concerned, I certainly wasn't throwing a party when he died (but I wasn't exactly crying, either). I thought National Review put it best: The only opinion poll he has to worry about now is the one upstairs (not a direct quote, but along those lines). I have to disagree on the Limbaugh part, though. I'm not a daily Limbaugh listener, but if I happen to be driving when he's on I listen, and I haven't heard anything remotely close to defamation. Do I agree with the guy on certain issues? No. But I think the bigger problem isn't what Rush does, but that some of us on the right (myself included) recognize it as partisan entertainment while others take it as gospel.