Anyone recall any republican being shot in the last 100 years or so?

[old mark]

I can't remember even one, at least not for political reasons...seems like it is just Democrats/Liberals who are shot for their affiliations and views.



mark

[grasswire]

1. Reagan? Ford?

Just sayin'

[Mojeoux]

3. I guess you mean "killed."

Those guys were shot and lived.

[Quantess]

5. True. I think the OP needs to rethink the question

[Swamp Rat]

2. How many republicans were sent anthrax?

[Supersedeas]

20. Not a single mention of the Anthrax attacks or the targets in the MSM...interesting?

Too soon?

[Swamp Rat]

22. I guess so.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Ronald Reagan

[Quantess]

6. You had better be saying this for humorous value

otherwise you deserve to be shot in Lincoln's booth!

[old mark]

9. No, I am just curious- I forgot about Reagan and Ford...They were certainly

not shot for political reasons, though...


mark

[HEyHEY]

7. Reagan's guy had bad aim.

[Hannah Bell]

8. Nixon, Ford, GHW Bush & GW Bush all had attempts of varying degrees of seriousness.

also clinton & obama.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots

[old mark]

10. I know people broke into Truman's office to attack him as well...he shot back

at them, IIRC.

Just that this seems to happen much more often to Dems than to republicans.

mark

[Scruffy1]

17. it wasn't his office and he didn't shoot back

[old mark]

19. It was in his office in Blair House while the White house was being rebuilt.

He was attacked by Puerto Rican Nationalists who were attempting to kill him, and he did withdraw a S&W revolver that he kept in his desk drawer. Evidently he did now fire it.

Link:

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/truman-assassination.htm


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[reggie the dog]

12. reagan

by hinkley i think

[ashling]

13. I wonder how many on the left made specious

comments about this incident in 1998.

The guy didn't get to DeLay, though

http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/highlights.html?action=view&intID=270

And there was the incident with Bob Barr:

(AP) An antique .38-caliber pistol accidentally discharged as it was being handled by U.S. Rep. Bob Barr during a reception in his honor. The bullet hit a glass door, and no one was hurt.

Also, didn't Dick Cheney shoot some Republican in the face?

:sarcasm:

[NuclearDem]

14. Wasn't Wallace paralyzed from the waist down?

Again, not a political reason behind the attack, but still...

Oh, and a Republican president was assassinated in 1901. And another in 1865. And another in 1881.

In fact, the only non-Republican President to be assassinated was JFK. The three Republicans assassinated were for political reasons too.

Then there was the Georgian who attempted to assassinate both Mikheil Saakashvili and Bush just a few years ago. It was only luck that the grenade failed to detonate.

[mtnester]

15. psstt, George Wallace was a Democrat

a southern populist who renounced his racist segregation supporting attitudes later in life, making apologies and turning in to a different person more or less. He had a change of mind and heart like Senator Byrd did...showing that people can figure out and renounce their ignorant ways.

[NuclearDem]

16. Oh crap, that's right, he was a Dem

My bad, just ignore the man behind the curtain...

[guardian]

21. Since we are going back a few decades

so was Senator Joseph McCarthy

[LawnKorn]

18. Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face with a shotgun

[Odin2005]

23. I think Teddy Roosevelt was shot almost exactly 100 years ago.