New Hampshire Democrat wishes Sarah Palin was on the plane that crashed in Alaska

First and foremost let me offer my condolences to the family of Ted Stevens and everyone else that lost a loved one on the plane that crashed in the Alaska wilderness.

According to the New Hampshire GOP website, Democrat candidate for the New Hampshire House–Keith Halloran–is also sorry about the plane crash, albeit for different reasons. According to an entry that he made on Facebook, Keith Halloran’s biggest regret is the fact that Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston were not on the plane as well.

The NHGOP released a statement about this vile statement:

Mr. Halloran’s outrageous comments are a new low, even by the standards of the New Hampshire Democrat Party,” said NHGOP Communications Director Ryan Williams. “His publicly stated death wish for Governor Palin and her family is abhorrent, and has no place in our public discourse. Governor Lynch and Ann McLane Kuster need to immediately denounce Mr. Halloran’s hateful remarks and demand that he personally apologize to the Palin family

As of this moment there has been no reaction from the New Hampshire Democrat party or Governor John Lynch. The Republican party has asked the governor to denounce Halloran’s comment, but in my opinion we all know that there is no way in hell that the governor or the Democrat party as a whole agree with such an outrageous and insensitive statement so a denouncement is not necessary. Right?

However, what is necessary is for Governor John Lynch and the New Hampshire Democrat party to call for Keith Halloran to drop out of the race. There is no way that the Democrat party in New Hampshire can tolerate this type of venom from one of its members. To ignore Keith Halloran’s statement in the hope that this controversy will disappear would be to put partizan politics above doing what is right and what is honorable. So while they may not condone the sentiment, they may be willing to overlook it in the hopes that it doesn’t become a black eye for their party in November.

So far the local media–print and electronic–have ignored this story; it appears as if the state Democrats and their willing accomplices in the media are hoping that this story will blow over and that is what I find to be the most deplorable aspect of this story. Perhaps even more deplorable than the original statement itself.

There is no way that Keith Halloran should be allowed to continue to run for office. If he is not asked to quite the race we will see exactly where the state Democrats’ priorities are.