I guess here’s how I look at things:

How many “Free Eric Rudolph” t-shrits have you seen? Or how about “Free the Un-A Bomber” bumper stickers?

How about “Free Mumia” junk? The guy speaks at college graduations for crying out loud (via teleconference, of course)!

Of course the right has their loons (rudolph and Ted K. would be such, in my book). The difference is that the vast, vast number of conservatives (I’d put it at about 99.99999% for five-9s accuracy) would never consider violence against their own country, under any circumstance. When one does commit such an act, it’s likely that we conservatives are the ones charging up old sparky for the perp’s reunion with destiny.

When a lefty blows something up or kills someone, if it is “for the cause” they become a liberal lion, celebrated in the corners of their liberal coffee clatches. Che worship; Castro support; we have an effing statue of V Lenin here in Seattle. But we’re supposed to worry about the conservative gun owner instead…