The Scurrilous Attacks on Palin, Limbaugh and the Tea Party Will Backfire

Glenn Reynolds thinks the unfounded and outrageous attacks attempting to blame Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Party for the Arizona shooting will backfire...and badly:

The biggest worry after the November elections was that a lot of people on the right would declare victory and go home. The shameless attempt to politicize the Tucson shootings and scapegoat people on the right has generated a huge amount of anger. Tea Party folks being who they are, I suspect this will mostly manifest itself as grunt-level political work in preparation for 2012 — precisely the opposite of what the scapegoaters were hoping for: Don’t get mad, get even, by making 2012 an even bigger shellacking than 2010.

The best way to eliminate the unfair accusations is to make sure there are no more Democrats in Washington (oops, will some Democrat perceive that as a threat??).