Confederate Yankee:

But perhaps the most sinister undertone is the hint of hopefulness among a certain element of the left wing that perhaps someone will succeed in assassinating Barack Obama.

Such a tragedy would serve as a confirmation of their firmly held beliefs that conservatives are evil, and could possibly trigger a backlash that would fill the anarchists among them with glee. At the same time, an Obama death would provide progressives with a martyred hero in place of what troubles many of them the most; deep-seated and well-placed fears that Barack Obama is precisely what his record suggests, a shallow, vain, and arrogant opportunist who has created impossible expectations with little possibility that he capable of coming close to meeting those impossibly inflated expectations.

In places liberals don’t want to talk about, they’d rather have a martyr than a failure. That is the reason they pounce upon even the remotest possibility of Obama’s untimely end with such fervor.

Absolutely disgusting. So did the right wing quietly champion Hinckley when he tried to assassinate Reagan? If you believe in this wingnuts logic then the answer to that would be yes.