editorial in my paper "A fool with a badge is still a fool"

[w8liftinglady]

sigh..by...guess who.

Michael Reagan
Syndicated Columnist

When a would-be assassin shot my Dad, President Ronald Reagan, nobody questioned the fact that the shooter was certifiably nuts.

Authorities recognized that fact and put him in a mental institution as his obvious disturbed mental state demanded.

Now we have another attempted killing of a public official, Arizona’s widely admired Rep. Gabby Giffords, and just about everybody recognizes the fact that the shooter, one Jared Loughner, is crazy as a loon.

Moreover, the fact that Loughner is probably nutty as a fruitcake, and perhaps dangerously so, could not have escaped the attention of local law enforcement authorities such as Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who already had Loughner in his sights yet failed to do anything to prevent Loughner’s obviously foreseeable killing spree.

Yet we don’t hear a word of repentance for his failure to foresee what transpired in Tucson last Saturday. Not a word, mainly because Sheriff Dubnik is too busy attacking Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives to turn his rhetoric loose on the shooter.

sheesh

[madinmaryland]

1. And a douchebag with a microphone is still a douchebag

:shrug:

[Denninmi]

2. I think that just about says all that needs to be said.

:P

[abq e streeter]

7. A much kinder word for him than I'm thinking of....

These people really have no low that they're not wiling to sink to , do they? What an utterly despicable piece of human excrement.

[provis99]

Michael Reagan is obviously mentally ill.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Was there liberal hate radio when Reagan was shot?

Wacko leftwingers with huge numbers of listeners, calling for the murder of conservatives?

I know my memory is bad, but I'm sure I'd remember that.

[w8liftinglady]

4. My memory sucks,too...

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. More proof Dutch should have tied a knot in it years ago.

[scarletwoman]

9. Wouldn't have helped. Michael Reagan was adopted. (nt)

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. More proof Dutch was out of his mind.

There. That's better.

:hi:

[steve2470]

6. Memo to Michael Reagan:

1- The police are not God. They cannot snatch up every mentally ill person at the drop of a dime for any reason whatsoever.
2- The mentally ill have civil rights like you do, you bozo.

[muntrv]

8. "regulated by Big Brother." Like warrantless wiretaps in your beloved Patriot Act?

[muntrv]

11. Hey Mikee! Maybe if your daddy didn't cut funding for mental health,

maybe Loughner would have gotten treatment.

[Contrary1]

12. And a fool picked by McCain as his running mate is still a fool. n/t

[rustydog]

13. Hey Michael, if I agreed with you...We'd BOTH be wrong

Why don't you try intellectual honesty. Just once, please.

[stray cat]

14. A conservative fool is still a fool too