HAS LIBERAL DEMOCRAT TUCSON SHERIFF GUPNIK PROVIDED LOUGHNER WITH A DEFENSE?

IT SEEMS SO TO ME. HERE'S WHY:

Pima County, Arizona, sheriff Clarence Dupnik.

His appearance and manner are avuncular, but his preachments are toxic.

I just watched this 50-year-veteran law-enforcement official claim in a televised interview with Megyn Kelly that the horrific murders committed by a disturbed young man (one described by former classmates as a pot-smoking left-wing rocker) had something to do with an “atmosphere” created when “one party is trying to do something to make this country a better country and the other party is trying to block them.”

The party trying to “do something to make the country better” is, of course, the Democrats. The party trying to “block them” is the Republicans.

I THINK THAT LOUGHNER'S LAWYER WILL SAY THAT THIS COMMENT BY ONE OF THE LEAD INVESTIGATORS PROVES THAT HIS CLIENT WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CRIME, BUT THAT HIS BORDERLINE PERSONALITY WAS TWISTED BY THE "VITRIOLIC POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE".

IT'S AS RIDICULOUS AS THE "TWINKIE DEFENSE" (ACTUALLY USED FOR ANOTHER ASSASSINATION), BUT IN THIS CASE THE SHERIFF SEEMS TO BE CORROBORATING IT AND THAT MIGHT CONVINCE SOME JURORS AND LEAD TO A HUNG JURY.

DUPNIK HAS POISONED BOTH THE POLITICAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ATMOSPHERES.

THE VOTERS OF TUSCON SHOULD RECALL HIM.