The policy of congressional Republicans is to praise the fortitude of the anti-health care reform demonstrations and disregard their death threats and vandalisms; even when these death threats are etched onto the signs they are carrying.
And apparently also to complain when the reverse occurs and violence is directed at them.
Republicans need to give credance and speak out every single time against the fringe lunatics in a crowd just as much as Democrast needed to do it with War Protesters.
Not much.
They should not come out in support if it. When questioned about it, in a manner that isn't baiting, they should condemn it. But you don't give credance to the whackos and lunatics that are the vocal minority of a group because 1, you do a disservice to the much larger majority by focusing on the idiots and 2, you just reenforce their notion that they should keep doing that to get attention.
Idiots suggesting we kill the bill with a browning if Brown can't kill it isn't really different than Sarah Palin being hung in effege, but I didn't hear liberals calling on their representitives to decry that. Idiots calling Obama hitler is no different than people calling Bush hitler. People suggesting Obama is a socialist isn't different then people suggesting Bush was a Fascist. People claiming the democrats are trying to take over the entire public sector isn't much different rhetoric wise than saying the entire point of the Iraq War was to get their oil and make halliburton rich. Gas Lines cut in response to legislation is much like Army Recruitment Centers bombed because of it. Is spitting on a congressman somehow tens of thousands of times worse than vandalizing businesses during protests. Is "Don't tread on me" hateful harmful rhetoric but "Get up in peoples faces" not? Throwing money at a parkinsons suffer is dispicable, so too is attacking a man in a wheel chair at a town hall. Screams of "Nigger" at a politician is low class, so too is having thugs with clubs standing outside of polling places.
Both sides have lunatics, whackos, and fringers that do asinine things and both sides have people that can suffer from mob mentality in the heat of the moment. Neither side needs to actively, continually, repeatedly, over and over again every moment they have come out and speak against it whenever discussing people who those whackos may be related to.
Republicans don't need to condemn the whackos everytime they talk about the Tea Parties anymore than Democrats would've needed to condemn them everytime they talked about the anti-war movement.
Moreso, if you were honestly and truthfully against the war why in the WORLD would you not applaud the 90% of people actually voicing their opinions and engaging in responsable political action rather than spend all your time condemning the 10% of whackos. And if you're honestly and truthfully against the spending and expansion of government then why in the world would they not applaud the 90% of people actually voicing their opinions and engaging in responsable political action rather than spend all your time condemning the 10% of whackos.
You don't disregard the entire movement because there is some crazies in it.