Sheriff Doof-nik needs to resign

A lot has been written and said in the past week about the piece of human trash that shot 20 people out in Arizona in his attempt to murder a US Congresswoman. As is so often the case in our modern, "24 hour news cycle", much of this information has been plagued by half-baked speculation and partisan pandering. Chief among the panderers has been one Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who will henceforth be referred to as Sheriff Doof-nik. This man has seemingly spent more time and energy since the shooting running around doing morning talk shows then he has actually perfoming the duties of his job. His lack of professionalism in the face of an ongoing investigation is a disgrace to law enforcement officers everywhere. His behavior in spouting his personal armchair psychologist's view of what caused this psychotic nut job assassin to carry out this evil plan is irresponsible at best. Were he a patrolman on a professional police force rather than an elected official playing sheriff, I'd wager he would face disciplinary action or even dismissal. And call me cynical and jaded, but I don't recall Sheriff Doof-nik or his compatriots on the left decrying the lack of civility in our national politics when every frothy-mouthed borderline Commie halfwit with a microphone, a camera, and a signal was screaming from mountaintops that "Bush is a Nazi", or "Bush is a Fascist", or "Bush is a Liar," or "Bush is terrorist", or "Bush is evil". Need I go on? Now, substitute the word Bush with Rumsfeld, or Ashcroft, or Cheney, or anyone else that the Left despised during the Bush Administration. He, like so many like-minded individuals, is totally transparent. As a law enforcement officer, Sheriff Doof-nik, you should understand better than any of us common folk that facts matter. You see, facts are facts. They cannot be as we would like them to be... they cannot be bent and manipulated to fit our convenient, fundraising party-circuit friendly world-view. They simply are. And had the facts bore out that this piece of scum was truly a right wing fanatic driven mad by the rantings of Michael Savage and Glenn Beck, then your theorem about the Right Wing Hostility towards elected officials would appear sage-like. Alas, poor Doof-nik, your theory doesn't hold any water, as it has become clearer that this murderer was just some unhinged nutjob who had been reading The Communist Manifesto, a book I would imagine not commonly found in the possession of Right-Wing Hate-Mongers. Former classmates have described him as apolitical, while one classmate actually referred to him as a leftist. Meanwhile, one need only devote a couple of minutes to looking at his writings to see that he was clearly deeply disturbed and that Left/Right politics had little if anything to do with his rampage. This is why you are wrong, Sheriff Doof-nik. This is why you should resign as sheriff and perhaps pursue a job working for the DNC, or maybe Move-On.org, the Huffington Post, or some other outpost where your loony left wing ideas would reach a sounding board of like-minded loonies. Hey, maybe you could even utilize your new position to bring your cherished civility back to politics. I won't hold my breath.