///That is IF he even listened to those people, and his close friends who knew him, said he didn't get into politics...and didn't care about that shit!////

Didn't get into politics???? Did you read what he wrote? I think you're the one whose shielded from reality. This guy wrote diatribes and posted them all over the internet about how much he distrusted the govt and then he targets a congresswoman BY YOUR OWN ADMISSION FOR 3 YEARS!!! Stop trying to have it both ways. Yes, he was a VERY political person. Obviously. That he was stuck in his own weird little world is completely beside the point. He encountered the rhetoric and it got into his head and became a mission which he carried out. You'll never be able to disprove that. Whether it's true of not, it will always remain a strong possibility and it is a stain Palin and her ilk can never wash off. And they deserve that fate for resorting to that shit.

////So if he wasn't listening to it, your argument falls down..fair enough???////

Well, of course, if he never heard it then my argument fails. Boy, you must have graduated from Harvard! That's the very thing you will never be able to rule out no matter how much you want to believe it. He COULD have encountered this rhetoric--it was all over the internet, TV, newspapers and magazines. You have to wonder how he could possibly have avoided it considering how anti-govt he is. It's frankly highly improbable that he didn't encounter any of it.