Murder suspect was GOP volunteer

Yesterday in Miramar Beach, Florida, a man shot a group of 5 people and barricaded himself in his house, police say. Two of the victims - who were visitors from Chile - died.

Authorities say the suspect is Dannie Roy Baker, a man in his 60s.

It turns out that Baker is a big Republican operative. After it was discovered that Baker had circulated strange right-wing e-mails last year, it was also found that Baker had volunteered for the Bush campaign in 2004. Other Republicans described him as "very active" in the campaign.

The media outside a small part of Florida has not picked up the story of the suspect's Republican activity. But it should, because this is a pattern. There's the BTK killer, the Tennessee church murderer, the man who assassinated the head of the Arkansas Democrats - the list goes on and on. All of these killings - whether they were politically motivated or not - were by people who were firmly established to be right-wingers.

America's right wing has become so extreme that it's become dominated by weirdoes who parlay their personal turmoil into politics. It festers and grows because of right-wing talk radio droids who feed it.

(Source: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/county_15423___article.html/office_sheriff.html)