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"We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights," she said in an interview with talk radio host Tammy Bruce Saturday. "It was simply crosshairs like you'd see on maps." Bruce suggested that they could, in fact, be seen as "surveyor's symbols." — Palin spokeswoman Rebecca Mansour

Ah "surveyor's symbols". Of course. "Crosshairs like you'd see in a map." You know, the ones that feature "bullseyes" that you shoot bullets at, thus requiring you to "reload." How dangerous the job of cartographer has grown recently! Personally, I think it's a terrible shame. I was keenly looking forward to that presidential run of hers, regarding it as the greatest boon to this great nation since the hey-day of Bob Hope. 'Tis no more, I fear.