As you're no doubt aware, a Romney supporter asked the presumptive GOP nominee why president Obama has not been charged with -- and presumably executed for -- treason. This was after a Romney surrogate attacked the Obama family.
I'm sure the vast liberal media will 'crucify' the Romney campaign much more thoroughly than they did the Obama campaign for Hillary Rosen's comment that Ann Romney has never really been subject to the harsh calculus of balancing family and working for a living.
Over at Redstate, they're up in arms over the fact that the Obama administration criticized the Romney campaign's silence over the treason accusation but didn't disavow Teamsters President James Hoffa for saying this last September:
HOFFA: Everybody here's got to vote. If we go back and keep the eye on the prize, let's take these son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong! Thank you very much!
Right wing bloggers have been complaining about this for a while. As
Media Matters noted at the time:
Right-wing bloggers misled by dishonest Fox News video editing are attacking Teamsters President James Hoffa for supposedly urging violence against Tea Party activists during a Labor Day speech. Conservatives are also attacking President Obama, who appeared at the event, for "sanctioning violence against fellow Americans" by failing to denounce Hoffa. But fuller context included in other Fox segments makes clear that Hoffa wasn't calling for violence but was actually urging the crowd to vote out Republican members of Congress.
Media Matters noted that Fox conveniently removed the bolded part of the Hoffa quote. Among others,
Crooks and Liars Video Cafe also pushed back.
Of course, Redstate did have their own misleadingly edited version of the quote, albeit cribbed directly from Real Clear Politics:
“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,” Hoffa added.
But now a Redstate poster and the commenters on the diary are claiming that calling for electoral change is the same thing as accusing a sitting president of treason, along with the logical consequence of his subsequently to be hoped for execution. And these are the types of people who have taken over the Republican party. And they are the sort of echo chamber extremists who Romney cannot afford to even think about ceasing to pander to. This summer and fall are going to make McCain and even Palin rallies seem quaint and convivial in comparison.