Ugh. She doesn’t do or say anything that doesn’t make you wanna put your head in your hands. I find this woman to be absolutely detestable.

This was Palin’s inspiration, a horrible, awful story: Private William Long, a 23 year-old recruiter, was shot and killed by a Muslim convert in Little Rock.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 2 (UPI) — A man who pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing a U.S. Army recruiter said he was angry about the killing of Muslims, Arkansas investigators said.

Police Chief Stuart Thomas told the Times that Muhammad, who had changed his name from Carlos Bledsoe, told police he became a Muslim as a teenager. In a telephone interview, he said Muhammad cited anger over U.S. killing of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan as his reason for the shooting.

So what does Palin do? Sees it as a terrific opportunity to score points with The Base, naturally. And has there ever been anybody more desperate to become President?

Governor Palin Statement on William Long

“The stories of two very different lives with similar fates crossed through the media’s hands yesterday – both equally important but one lacked the proper attention. The death of 67-year old George Tiller was unacceptable, but equally disgusting was another death that police believe was politically and religiously motivated as well.

William Long died yesterday. The 23-year old Army Recruiter was gunned down by a fanatic; another fellow soldier was wounded in the ambush. The soldiers had just completed their basic training and were talking to potential recruits, just as my son, Track, once did.

Whatever titles we give these murderers, both deserve our attention. Violence like that is no way to solve a political dispute nor a religious one. And the fanatics on all sides do great disservice when they confuse dissention with rage and death.”

Governor Sarah Palin

Yeah, ‘unacceptable.’ And ‘…confuse dissention with rage and death’. Great, genius.

‘Dissention’: Time to broadcast my ‘rage’. No, wait, time to broadcast my ‘death’. She’s right, that’s confusing.

Thanks to Donklephant.

Tiller Murder Suspect Is Scott Roeder. Connected With Operation Rescue.
By Justin Gardner 

He survived a 1993 shooting, but he died today.

Doctor who performed abortions shot to death

(CNN) — A suspect in Sunday’s killing of Dr. George Tiller, whose women’s clinic in Kansas was the epicenter of the state’s battles over abortion for nearly two decades, was in police custody Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

The killing, which came about 16 years after Tiller survived a shooting outside his Wichita clinic, took place shortly after 10 a.m. Sunday at Reformation Lutheran Church. Tiller was dead at the scene, police reported.

Wiki: Throughout his career, Tiller was a frequent target of anti-abortion violence. On August 19, 1993, Tiller was shot in both arms by pro-life activist Shelley Shannon. At the time she attacked Tiller, Shannon had been a pro-life activist for five years and had written letters of support to Michael Griffin, murderer of David Gunn. She called Griffin “the awesomest, greatest hero of our time.” She traveled to the Wichita clinic, a site of frequent demonstrations by abortion-rights and pro-life activists, and shot Tiller with a semiautomatic pistol.

He’d been a favorite target of Bill O’Reilly, who called him ‘Tiller the Baby Killer’:

No shortage of right-wing happiness: