Wait, you mean he wasn’t some crazed right-winger upset that attempts to defeat Representative Gabriel Giffords (D-AZ) were in vain? Next you’re gonna tell me his listing “The Communist Manifesto” as one of his favorite books doesn’t point to him being a Glenn Beck fan.

Loughner registered to vote on Sept. 29, 2006, identifying himself as an independent. Records show he voted in the 2006 and 2008 elections but is current listed as “inactive” on the state’s voter roles — meaning that he did not vote in November.

The political affiliations of Loughner, who is being charged by state and federal authorities with the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) as well as 19 other victims outside a Tucson grocery store on Saturday, have become the subject of a white-hot partisan debate in recent days.

Even the Washington Post recognizes the significance of this information:

Loughner’s decision to affiliate as an independent rather than a Republican or Democrat would seem to affirm the sense that while he targeted Giffords in the attack, it was not a decision born of a set of deeply held political beliefs that fit neatly into either party.

And he wasn’t politically active enough to have been angered by political victories or losses. You’ll find very few Tea Party-types who are not only registered independents but failed to vote in the Great Republican Resurgence of 2010.

Other information we’ve learned recently: Loughner at one point expressed opposition to the Bush Administration, thought 9/11 was an inside job, and “his thoughts were unrelated to anything in our world.” That last bit from his philosophy professor writing in Slate.

So we have an atheist 9/11 Truther who is angered by the Bush Administration, didn’t bother to vote in the midterm, was considered insane even before the shooting, and considers The Communist Manifesto to be one of his favorite books. Clearly a rabid member of the Tea Party movement.