I see a Democrat winning somewhere. Since her book came out, she's been caught in so many lies and half-truths. No, not by Democrats, but by Sen. McCain's campaign staff. He first told them to keep low key, but the lies were so blatant that he relented and told them to defend themselves...but to just state the facts, and not get nasty.
He broke his silence yesterday:
"WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Republican Senator John McCain on Wednesday strongly defended the top advisers from his 2008 presidential campaign in the face of sharp criticism from his vice presidential running mate, Sarah Palin.[..]"
I am certainly not worried that Palin will ever win elective office. After her book tour storm dies down, I predict she will be on her way to a TV talk show, because running for political office is hard work, harder than beauty pageants. She seems to quit when the going gets rough.
And, after all, Limbaugh and Beck are getting millions for a just chatting a couple of hours a day, why shouldn't she?
But her celebrity can be dangerous in certain ways. Like she's the one who came up with the GOP talking point, "death panels" (probably with someone's help)...one of the more ridiculous lies which soon overtook the healthcare debate. Here's what she said when Barbara Walters asked her about it...
From abcnews.com: "Sarah Palin is acknowledging that "death panels" aren't part of Democrats' health care bills.
But, she says, she's been talking about them to make a point -- and she's comparing her use of the term to Ronald Reagan's cold war references to the "evil empire." [..] You're never going to find the evil empire on a map of the world,"
...Asked if Obama -- who has pushed back aggressively against the notion of "death panels" being part of the Democrats' bills, is a liar, Palin said no:
"He is not lying, in that those two words will not be found in any of those thousands of pages of different variations of the health care bill. No, ‘death panel' isn't there," Palin said.
"But he's incorrect, and he is disingenuous, if he is telling the American public that it doesn't come down to people -- committees, bureaucrats -- deciding who, ultimately, will receive government-run health care, if that's where we end up. With government-run health care, the only way to provide all the services to those who will need this health care is to ration it at some point. Who will do the rationing? It will be bureaucrats."
"They will be able to call the shots, based on somebody's subjective judgment of productivity, of somebody's life, who will receive the health care that needs to be rationed, and who will not. So, it was funny though, that the president said, ‘There's no such thing as death panels in there,' and some Congress members were saying there's no such thing. And yet then, steps were taken to take the ‘death panels' out."[..]"~~
Can you believe it?
It was Blumenauer's amendment for end-of-life counseling that she called a 'death panel'...and it WASN'T taken out, it PASSED with the rest of the House bill.
I repeat -- there NEVER were provisions for "bureaucrats" who "will be able to call the shots, based on somebody's subjective judgment of productivity, of somebody's life, who will receive the health care that needs to be rationed, and who will not."
These provisions NEVER existed...other than in her goofy mind. This woman is an embarrassment to all women who struggle to get taken seriously. Doesn't she realize that the rest of us read?
Shame on you Barbara Walters for not calling Palin on this...for letting her get away with her lies.
The REAL death panels are made up of insurance executives...the ones who routinely deny life-saving coverage...who pull the plug on "expensive" treatments for sick people. Who are then kicked off their policies because they get sick. Who then die.
