In all honesty here, I do not feel Sarah Palin has any collateral damage or fall out from the tradgedy of Tuscon Arizona. It was an awful event, the sense of words are a strong reminder of what so many of us are taught as children. The old nursery rhyme sticks to the belief of what we allready know, "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt me." I can't imangine not being able to have politicians spar especially in this day and age. It is as though certain age groups in America who do absoulutely remember a different pre-Regan era tend to understand a democratic America.

But as time progressed and different agendas held more of the publics appeal, the sense of diplomacy was replaced for being upset. Being more ventful and venting about typical realities. I have not forgotten the lock key children messages of the 80's as more women went to work, with the provisions for child care or not. If the situation didn't work, it would be on air for people to gage if this was an important matter, or just another news story. Todays news is of a different nature, there first off are at my observation at least 10 news shows I am aware of.

Some are of an entertainment source, others are liberal news, anything goes, stupid news stories,to the absurd and yet even imbecile things that happen to people, animals, and others who dare to pursue the fine art of stupidity. Remember the lady who threw her cat in the garbage pail? The sense of wanting so much to be so apparent has thrown a huge curve ball to the perception in my eyes of what is news? Is it important news? there is no perception of fair or reasonable sense of facts, that a non-bias observer could just get the straight of the story.

In the situation with Sarah Palin, I am not one of her biggest fans, but her sense of moxie early in her running of the V.P. had to have been what got John McCain fired up about her. Here was  a women who knew what the state of Alaska had, and rather than try to sell what some might say is Alaska's most prized possession, it's oil to the major oil companys Palin told them there was no deal to be had. Amazingly, this was her truest conquest that cemented her legacy as a tough no nonscense opponent.

When she disagrees with something she is a Mama grizzly as she puts it, and she is not pleasant. But thats the way it is, sometimes you have to get a little ugly to convey that sense of, "I mean business." Otherwise, you can get other more aggressive types, that are uglier and willing to run with what ever means they have to undermine you. The field of politics can be deadly, as we have seen by the Tuscon tradgedy. Whether the gun man was upset over certain stands, or his own mental condition, or both are yet to be determined. But in referencing "cross hairs" is really such a way of saying that a district has this type of voter, so the rhetoric would have to be, "so lets stop my opponent, by reminding voters, of this persons stands."

That would be clean, but unfortunately as political people use many tactics to get to the mind set of voters, whether it be slurs, bending the truth, or even telling the truth it still is truly what the politican puts out there and who the politican knows that can turn the tides as many political pundits analyze why voters change their minds right up to the very last minute. There can be any number of reasons to believe that Sarah Palin did not wish to create a unsafe enviornment for Gabriele Gifford, the sense that the gun man wanted to resolve certain unresolveable issues in the only way he saw fit. On that fateful day, choose his weapon of choice, it was never said by anyone why that type of weapon.

But as long as people can channel a sense of hostility there will be volatility and collateral damage. In this instance, it was 6 innocent lives that were lost, 14 shot in total, and one that is hopefully will never remember the awful day she was shot at point blank range in the head. I would hope that next time someone is really really angry, they head for a place and recapture what ever it was that was so upsetting, and can unravel rather than choose to go to a place that you can never come back from. Anger is a deadly force, a bad place and a dangerous place there should be no tolerance for it in politics as politics is about people. What people do is about people.