With the race between Sen. John McCain and Ann Kirkpatrick in an actual tie, 43-43, this has no place. Arizona Republicans either have criminally short memories, or they have been completely infiltrated by Trump and his Breitbart pals. Because they created this:
Arizona Republicans, who are scrambling to help Sen. John McCain win the "fight of his political life," unveiled a poster this week depicting the face of McCain’s Democratic challenger surrounded by bullet holes.
Yep. A "wanted" poster featuring Ann Kirkpatrick's face, surrounded by bullet holes.
It brings to mind Hillary Clinton's warning about how Donald Trump was allowing the alt-right to take over the Republican party. She invoked this Breitbart headline. "Gabby Giffords: The Gun Control Movement's Human Shield."
And here we are now, with Gabby Giffords—who was shot in the head in an Arizona parking lot five years ago, ending her congressional career—having to make this statement about the official Arizona Republican Party:
“In a state and country that know the toll of gun violence too well, there is no room for invoking the use of firearms in our politics," Giffords, a gun-safety advocate who was gravely wounded in the Tucson shootings five years ago, said in a prepared statement with her husband, Mark Kelly.
"Our political leaders have the responsibility to avoid a descent into messages that might suggest that elections are settled anywhere else than at the ballot box. We urge Arizonans of every political stripe to join us in asking the Arizona Republican Party to refrain from using this irresponsible imagery and to apologize.”
They are not apologizing: "Nobody, including the hundreds of reporters who received the press release with the image, linked it to violence until the Kirkpatrick campaign tried to use it as a way to distract the media from Ann Kirkpatrick's absence from the campaign trail," said Matt Specht, the guy in charge of the GOP campaign against Kirkpatrick.
What about you, John McCain? Any comment from you? Or are you okay with your party suggesting using your opponent's image for target practice? So far crickets from the McCain camp.
Can you chip in with $3 to help Ann Kirkpatrick retire John McCain and turn the Senate blue?