I lost my linguistic tempter last week over the politicization of the VA Tech massacre for which I later apologized.  But rhetorical regrets aside, I remain ever-annoyed over these incessant and meaningless post-traumatic debates.  The latest spate comes in the argument over whether Cho was a liberal or a conservative.  Granted, the point on the latter was that his actions have done so much to fan the flames of right-wing fear-mongering while the former was merely to further demonstrate Limbaugh-lunacy.  Regardless, between Newt and Rush, there are at least two prominent wingnuts who are pushing the “liberalism is to blame” meme.  

So I’ll say this once for the record: The kid was freakin’ mentally ill, people!  He was saturated with self-loathing, paranoia, and rage and, unable to cope with the crushing pain, he decided to externalize it by brutally murdering anyone he set his rabid eyes upon.  If he voted for Ralph Nader, are there seriously people insane enough to extrapolate this to liberals as a whole?  If he was a card-carrying member of the NRA, does this mean that all Republicans are unhinged, violent thugs?  No and no, with a bit of ‘are you nuts?!’ thrown in for good measure.