Sarah Palin: Bullseyes and Bullshit

SarahPAC staffer Rebecca Mansour, who has been tweeting in defense of her boss since the Gabby Giffords shooting tragedy occurred, is stating that the crosshairs were never intended to be gun sights.

"We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights," she said in an interview with talk radio host Tammy Bruce Saturday. "It was simply crosshairs like you'd see on maps." Bruce suggested that they could, in fact, be seen as "surveyor's symbols." Surveyor's symbols.... REALLY!

Mansour added that "it never occurred to us that anybody would consider it violent" and called any attempts to politicize the Arizona tragedy "repulsive." No... what's repulsive Rebecca is your idiotic denial that your words and actions could have these consequences.

The suggestion that the symbols were related to guns comes from Palin herself. On March 23, Palin tweeted to her supporters a note about her Facebook message, writing, "Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: 'Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!' Pls see my Facebook page." As Politico's Jonathan Martin points out, in November Palin boasted about defeating 18 of the 20 members on her "bullseye" list.

Of the 20 districts targeted by Palin, Giffords and Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.V.) were the only two candidates to win over her PAC's chosen Republicans.

Keep you head down Nick! It's dangerous out there.

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