GET A GRIP

I read this article in Breitbart.com today:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A4SU8G1&show_article=1

This is just too much. Yes, the Second Amendment provides for Americans rights to bear arms. However, as in most things, discretion is required. I am a gun enthusiast, and I understand people's fears of having their second amendment rights taken away from them. But behavior like this takes us all one step closer to that happening.

No matter how much of an enthusiast you are, show a little common sense. You simply DO NOT take a gun to a presidential event. Especially when said event is a volatile town hall meeting. Emotions are running high, and tempers flare at the drop of a hat. To bring firearms into the mix is a terrible decision.

Our Secret Service members have a tough enough job to do without this kind of behavior, first of all. You potentially risk your life and those around you with this irresponsible action. Like him or not, you must realize that the Secret Service is already on high alert due to the tensions of the people assembled as well as the numerous death threats already made against Obama, and if tempers between the pro- and anti- protesters were to flare, events could potentially unfold that would be devastating to all.

Second, but just as important, HOW DOES THIS HELP THE PROTESTERS? They are already facing an uphill battle for legitimacy; all this does is drag the cause down. I am cringing at the thought of the coverage this will be getting over the next week in the MSM. They already call the protesters unhinged mobs - how does this change that perception?

Come on, people! Use your heads! If they try to legislate away our second amendment rights, THEN you bring your gun to a rally. Not for health care!! How do guns forward the health care agenda? Get a grip! I don't care if it's allowed in Arizona, I don't care if you hate Obama, his agenda or the health care legislation, there is simply no excuse for such behavior, and I hope to God this is the last we see of it.

We're better than this. You only serve the left agenda and reinforce their 'angry mob' argument.

Take a breath, get a grip, and THINK for a minute!

BEYOND THE PALE

This is simply too much. Tea Party protesters and Obamacare protesters have been accused of being AstroTurf; paid mercenaries, doing the bidding of the RNC, insurance companies, and other shadowy special interests. I have a question for those who make these accusations - where's your proof?

It seems to me that all of these accusations spell one thing - projection. In psychology circles, projection is a term used to describe a defense mechanism in which one attributes one's own thoughts, motives or actions to others.

I mention this, and demand proof of their projected accusations, because there is overwhelming proof of astroturfing on the part of the DNC and the Obama Administration and I have yet to see any credible proof of astroturfing on the part of their opposition. And spare me the story of the guy in Connecticut who runs the blog 'Right Principles' and has a following of a whopping 28 people.

On the side of the Administration's supporters, we have memos from the White House, mobilizing their troops in Organizing for America and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius calling her 'brothers and sisters' in the SEIU to congratulate them after the fiascos in Tampa and St. Louis. We all know about MoveOn.org and ACORN by now, and the list goes on. But these true astroturfers have sunk to a new low, and here it is, straight from the pages of Craigslist:

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/npo/1315447872.html

Now combine it with this little tidbit:

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care/george-soros-pledges-5-million-to-bankroll-health-care-reform-push-group-says/

I don't know about you, but I'd say this ends the astroturfing debate once and for all.