No jokes, this is a tragedy.  Darcy Burner, the democrat nominee to the 8th District Congressional seat, lost her home to a fire this morning.

The Burner's and their dog escaped injury, and their cat was lost.

As I said, this is every family's nightmare.  To be woken up at 7am by your child telling you his room is on fire is an experience I am happy to avoid.  Thank God they did waken and escape.

Now the cause is under investigation, with rumours off a gas main blowing and a faulty light in the child's room running forefront.

The fact it started in a child's room might lead to other speculation, as it would not be the first time that a child has done something tragically stupid.

Hopefully not.

What I was curious about when I read this story this afternoon was how long it would take our local loony left to blame this on the republicans.

I didn't have long to wait, nor was I the first to wonder.  Browsing to Horsesass.org, the local den of rabid liberals, and a stronghold of Burner Support, I was not disappointed.

Here are a couple examples from the comments:

Blue John spews:

It's a sad world where I considered that it could be some sort of republican dirty trick. "Can't win legitimately, so burn her house down and distract her, at the very least."

ME spews:

No conspiracy needed... just a right-wing jerk with a gas can and a chip on his shoulder.

I'm sure there aren't any of THOSE types around there.

My Left Foot spews:

By the way, just where was Reichert this morning??

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmm??

ByeByeGOP spews:

Which of the right wing fuckheads did this and will there be justice? I knew the righties would resort to this shit. It's all they have - it's all they can do. They can't win with ideas so they try to win with intimidation! Come to my house bitches and you'll find it tougher to burn down.

We need to start a reward fund that leads to putting the right wing prick in jail.

Steve spews:

@87 Hmm, more likely it was those commie-fascists at the BIAW. I hear they have some recent experience with torching homes.

Of course at least one Righty had their comment:

mark spews:

Darcy "Burner" ahhhhahhhhh. She probably owes
more on her house than it's worth. Couldn't
get that fancy Countrywide deal like the rest
of the Democrats. What a bunch.

All the above are uncalled for.

Look, I have no love for this woman.  During her last campaign, she misrepresented herself as a former Microsoft Executive, which she was not, nor was she even close.  Her ads were typical democrat hatchet pieces and she has even less experience then Obama...a scary thought on it's own.

But I don't think anyone honest would wish this kind of loss on anyone.

Now, several times on the Blog above right wingers made mention to how Goldy was being hypocritical.  He took her tragedy and turning it into a pimp for donations and volunteers...to her campaign.  Goldy, aka David Goldstein is several anti republican democrat, such that he is quite unhinged quite often.

The accusation was made that he would be must less saddened and compassionate if this had happened to Rep Dave Reichert or any other prominent republican, and frankly, I agree.

His typical irrational hatred of all things conservative is renowned. 

But that is his blog, and if the right wingers dislike it, they should move on.   Expecting otherwise would be like waiting for leopard to change his spots.

This blog was nothing more then what you would expect at Horsesass.org, including the comments.

Sad.