death threats

Like many Republicans in Wisconsin and across the country, Scott Walker has spent a considerable amount of time complaining about hostile opponents and citizens, and worrying aloud about all the threats that have been made against him or his family. All public figures do, of course, face the problem of harrassment or threats, but Republicans seem to have made a fetish in recent years of acting like the supreme or even exclusive victims -- never mind the many examples to the contrary, most recently Democratic Rep.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other state news media again today are headlining reported death threats against a number of state lawmakers -- all of them Republican. The threats were reportedly made on Gov. Walker on down the line to a number of GOP congressmen and state legislators. 

Threats against pubilc figures are always a serious matter, and especially so in light of the Arizona shootings over the weekend. But it's strange that this new round of threats is being reported out of an important context, namely: Elected officials of all political stripes commonly receive death threats. But to read the news accounts today, you'd think the only politicians in Wisconsin who have been threatened are Republicans.