May 2, 2013 6:13 AM

There's insensitive. There's classless. There's reprehensible. And then there's the GOP.

In a shocking example of Republican indifference to the problems Americans face, the Republican party is distributing a fundraising video today that mocks the background check defeat in Congress recently, using a photo of the grieving mother of a dead Sandy Hook Elementary 6 year old boy in order to brag about the legislation’s defeat. The mom is Nicole Hockley, mother of 6-year-old Newtown shooting victim Dylan Hockley. Specifically, the Republicans used a photo of President Obama consoling Mrs. Hockley at a White House event where the President criticized the Senate for killing the wildly-popular background check legislation, that has been polling in the low 90-percentile for a while. It’s bad enough to use photos of grieving Sandy Hook moms to fundraise. But to use a photo of the grieving mother of a dead six year old boy in order to mock the mother’s effort to do something productive in the wake of her loss, is pretty reprehensible.

It takes a truly astonishing level of inhumanity to use a photo of a grieving Sandy Hook mother in a fundraising video. It’s a level of insensitivity I wouldn’t have expected from the GOP, but just when I think Republicans might have finally scraped bottom, I learn all over again that there IS no bottom. Such is today’s GOP.

No, the photo isn’t the dominant feature of the ad, but there’s no mistaking it. At :19, the photo of President Obama consoling Mrs. Hockley appears, and it didn’t get into the ad by accident. Even worse is that the photo is from a White House event after the Senate killed universal background check legislation supported by 91% of Americans. It’s not exactly a stretch to interpret the use of the photo as a big “%$#& YOU” to Americans- the same Americans they’re trying to convince to donate to the GOP.

YER DOON IT RONG….

A reasonable person would have to wonder if RNC Chairman Reince Priebus is really so insensitive and callous that he’d stoop this low. That the ad was released is all the answer we need.

Stay classy, eh? Or not.

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