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Carney: Palin is ‘beyond the pale’

With tempers still flying high following the recent enactment of health care reform legislation, Congressman Chris Carney (D-10) says Sarah Palin went too far by using imagery of his district in cross hairs to target him and 19 other House Democrats.

“If this is what Ms. Palin is about, if she is saying we have to reload and put cross hairs on people, that’s beyond the pale,” Carney told a local TV station this week.

His comments came as both parties have traded accusations about who’s to blame for the threats of violence being leveled against members of Congress. Carney and Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper (D-3) were the two Keystone Staters targeted by Palin last week.

“You can’t vote worried about your career, you have to vote the right way,” Carney said. “You have to vote your conscience and for me this was a vote of conscience.”

Meanwhile, Republican 10th District hopeful Dave Madeira called on Carney to “tone down” his rhetoric, in an echo of Democratic calls for the GOP to do the same.

“Chris Carney is misrepresenting Palin’s traditional American colloquialisms for what purpose?” Madeira said in a statement. “Doesn’t he recognize that he is giving voice to the kinds of misrepresentations that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other anti-gun legislators use to marginalize those of us who stand for the Second Amendment?”

March 30, 2010 at 9:40 am

--pa2010.com Staff

Tags: Chris Carney, Dave Madeira, PA-10, Sarah Palin

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