Since Jared Lee Loughner’s January rampage caused us to consider it, we’ve seen a huge increase in calls for level-headedness, kinder non-violent rhetoric and sickly-sweet sentiments toward one another that would make the Care Bears gag.

Take, for example, Wisconsin State Rep. Gordon Hintz’s shouting, “You’re f—ing dead” to fellow Wisconsin State Rep. Michelle Litjens on Friday.

Or Mike Papantonio’s assertion, guest-hosting Ed Schultz’s radio show Feb. 22, that elderly tea partiers are “not moving through fast enough because we can keep people alive a long time with good medication.”

Or even Massachusetts Rep. Mike Capuano’s urging a pro-union crowd Feb. 22 in Boston that it was time for things to “get a little bloody” in defense of union rights.

I admire the civility and reservation of our elected representatives in avoiding opening their mouths and inserting their feet. I admire their ability to articulate their ideas in ways that far outstrip a carpenter missing a nail and connecting with his thumb.

To titillate the centrist in us all, let me point out that stupidity knows no party lines. Whig, Tory or Rent is Too Damn High, all parties have seen their share of moonbats and wingnuts.

Let me reel in the sarcasm for one paragraph here; Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., exercised good taste in mid January, reading a list of political comments he found despicable on the House floor. He omitted the names from the comments, leaving only the violent bits. A wise move, and one that junior legislators would do well to mimic.

All sarcasm considered, it’s not scarier because a candidate for governor is saying these things. Two of his quotes came from GOP gubernatorial candidates Sharron Angle and Stephen Broden. Note that neither are the governor of anything except the crazy wonderlands in their respective minds.

Already out on a limb bowing comically, the media struggles to find violent comments from the tea party. Instead, they rely on connecting them to uncouth individuals.

As any good statistician will tell you, correlation always implies causation. Ten cases out of ten, if it happened concurrently or even recently, it was pretty much the reason for it. Therefore, when O’Reilly puts a column on his website about Jim McDermott and one day later McDermott gets threatening phone calls from a guy one side item short of a meal bundle, O’Reilly’s column forced the gears of his mind to grind against each other. What else could possibly have motivated him?

As I am an entirely unbiased opinion columnist, I’ll point out that a lot of this rhetoric is coming from the left. Michelle Malkin, also an unbiased opinion writer, has compiled a literal decade’s worth of liberal hate speech on her website.

This causes me to ponder our motivation to wish physical harm to one another. I mean, I think it’s an objective shame that there’s not a truck big enough to run over every liberal at once, but it wouldn’t be big enough to run over every conservative either. The door swings both ways, and seems to hit us all as we leave to make fools of ourselves.

There will never be a day, America, in which we drop the violent rhetoric.

We’ll always have that base instinct to wish our opponents muted, and as most of us lack the ability to verbally kneecap our political foes, we can only shake our fists at the sky for not striking them with a rogue lightning bolt.