The former governor of Alaska (that would be Ms. Palin) recently ignited ire on the left of the American political spectrum for a firearms-related metaphor on Twitter and gun-sight imagery on Facebook. More than a few Democratic commentators have connected the [alleged] dots between Palin’s Tea Party-pleasing anti-government rhetoric with gun ownership, gun nuts and, finally, domestic terrorism. But let’s face it: there’s votes in them thar gun owners. Just ask Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who spent the better part of today schmoozing at a shotgun social. Mind you, this is no new thing for the politician talk show host Rush Limbaugh insists on calling “Dingy Harry.” In fact, the locus of Senator Reid’s big day out, the Clark County Shooting Park, is a beneficiary of the pol’s pork barrel meistering. As is Mr. Reid; two of his sons work at the landowner’s law firm.
