Why doesn’t she go home and raise her kids?! She’s ridiculous and just another liar like Mitt.

Before Sarah became the veep nominee – she and Bristol could have benefited from the ACA benefits. Now that she has milked the FOX idiots out of millions she doesn’t need it – never mind all the uninsured in her own state. She is an empty-suit – spouting incomprehensible nonsense and getting unwarranted coverage from the hungry inept media pundits. I think I heard it all a couple days back, when she questioned the intellect of POTUS!! He forgot more yesterday than she has in her entire under sized brain.

On this, the central problem of the 2012 elections–two realities competing, Leonard Pitts has got game and quite a few of us on this comment list, so far, don’t. When liberals become preoccupied by exchanging witticisms (even really clever ones) about Sara Palin and her failings, we take the gaudy, goofy bait the GOP keeps tossing off to us. We waste precious time and energy on distractions, instead of concentrating on winning this November (and from here on in) within as many state and federal elections as possible. I’m as guilty of this as anyone, knowing full well that it isn’t very nice (or even very effective) when smart people bully dumb people by using words better than they do. However, we play into the GOP’s hand whenever we don’t remember that we have to fight as if our lives depended on it.

I wonder whether today’s crass GOP strategists count on liberals like us having been softened up by being raised in kinder, gentler Republican households. I turned up the dog-eared printout of an old email in a chest of drawers I inherited from my parents, alongside my mother’s diploma from nursing school. It was the first I knew of the silly, mean-tempered things the far less crazy Republicans of their day had to say in jest about Hillary Clinton and her efforts to reform health care, long before many in the Great Generation became the grateful beneficiaries of Medicare and Social Security, long before the Clintons and other liberals were vindicated by passage of the ACA.

Note that my parents, and probably many others like them, did not shout the insults in this printout from the mountain tops of Super PACS as Boomer Republicans see fit to do. Then again, our parents had experienced firsthand the consequences of societies caving in to big lies broadcast over loudspeakers. They knew firsthand that rhetoric is not enough. You have to fight for some truths as if your life depended on it.

It’s just another Dooms Day scenario conjured up by a clueless Republican to try and get back to what they do best – fear monger. They can’t get elected if they can’t scare you. She would be better served to get her own house in order and stay out of politics…

Sarah Palin’s “death panels” comment may have been a slip of the tongue for what the GOP has in mind for seniors. There is only one option available if MEDICARE is dismantled as proposed by Rep Ryan, MEDICARE continues to be gutted by the 2003 Part D “Reform” (read Trojan Horse), and the young don’t earn enough to support their parents and grandparents if the social program they currently use to live with a relative modicum of dignity are no longer there. Sarah may have been right of the money…she simply directed her claim at the people whose policies would prevent the implementation of death panels.

Wait till you hear Eric Cantor lying through his teeth about “choosing your own doctor” etc. He makes a far more credible liar and the administration better get off their asses, open their mouths and talk about it.

Good artuicle, but don’t knock lies. They worked for Hitler.

sarha is just a big mouth D-BAG that shut the lights out when she gose to bed with her hubby tod . the lights are out because she wants to see tod as the black man that dumped her retarted butt years ago

Put an end to all her input. Don’t propagate news about her. She’s like the Kardashians. No substance but publicity continues…they must be paying a lot of money!

doesn’t she realize that we already have ‘death panels’? only we call them ‘insurance companies’. her child with downs syndrome could face many health perils over the years–ie preexisting conditions. if she loses her health care coverage for him, he could be DENIED coverage. now, she probably has enough money that it wouldn’t matter. but if she were poor, that could indeed be a death sentence.

The writer could have mentioned the fact that the idea that “If you repeat a lie often enough and loud enough it becomes truth to those who believe it.” started with Nazi Germany. Strong right wingers who called themselves “socialists”. After the war Madison Avenue began to pick it iup. They were restrained by FCC rules until President Reagan repealed all thos “unnecessary regulations” which opened the flood gates. But even before that it was established that the election of 1964 became the one when advertising replaced dicussion. Read; The Selling Of The Presidency.

That woman is an idiot, pure and simple. If the media would ignore her for a few moments she and the memory of her would soon fall back into part of our dark history. Unfortunately, there are still far too many ill informed and ignorant people in this country who continue to hang on her every word. You can’t fix stupid, but you certainly can try and ignore stupid people.

I WOULD NOT WORRY SO MUCH IF IT WAS ONLY MS. PALIN ON IDIOT PARADE – BUT IT APPEARS TO BE THE ENTIRE GOP. THE MEDIA HAS ABANDONED IT’S ROLE AS THE FOURTH ESTATE BY NOT CALLING OUT THE LIES, LIARS, AND FALSE EQUIVALENCY EXPERTS. ANY VOCALIZATIONS BY A POLITICIAN ARE “NOT INTENDED TO BE FACTUAL STATEMENTS.”

Palin is the bimbo of bimbos. Though I didn’t like Keith Olbermann’s abrasive style, he was as right as rain when he called her an idiot, and she’s proven us right time after time. You’d think this airhead would go home, shut the hell up and live out her useless life, but no, back she comes again like a rash you can’t cure. There are people still stupid enough to think she’s smart, but all that means is that they are still STUPID.

She may be an idiot and she may have a tenuous grasp of reality but so do the people she reaches. They are as uneducated and moldable by fear as she is. Thanks! to the American education system for a general lack of critical thinking skills and a special thanks to all those wakho churches these people attend. My step son and daughter in law are both teachers in the public school system and born again, how can that happen after 4 years of collage. Their ignorance scares the hell out of me

when are people going to realize Palin is an idiot and stop paying attention to her.

Palin is an ignorant idiot!

They won’t remain one people. The Teapublicans are committed to this path — committed to partisanship for its own sake — committed to putting the goals of their party above the well-being of this country.

They’ve already promised on multiple occasions to secede and/or violently revolt if they don’t like the latest election results.

This will end with violent clashes in the streets. The only question is who the police will be clashing with; whether it will be with the destitute and desperate like in Libya, or with the hired cronies of the failing regime like in Egypt.

Obviously I’m hoping it’ll be the latter.

Thank you again Leonard Pitts and God Bless You for your persistence in pursuing sane discourse toward mutually beneficial objectives, over noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. Let us hope that God gives us more leaders that we need and fewer that we deserve.

“At long last, sir, have you no shame ?” — Joseph Welch to Sen. Joseph McCarthy Someone of great standing like Welch had needs to ‘get in her face’ at an official hearing. Trouble is today it would probably take ‘the deity’ to shut Palin’s trap for it.

No one ever accused old Lenny of being smart and his article once again proves the point

This is an outstanding article and captures the phenomenon. This is the new reality. Used to be that people would agree on what happened, and the causal factors for it, but then disagree on the fix. That’s where politics and left/right would come in. That’s what was. Now, we’re living on different planets where all of the facts are different when describing the same thing.

Not too long ago, I was posting back and forth with montanabill here. I started realizing at one point that we were talking about completely different events even though we were discussing the same thing. It became clear to me that we were living in alternate realities and there wasn’t much point in continuing on. He may have been thinking the same thing. When there’s no basis for dialogue, that’s not good for democracy.

Last weekend Obozomustgo repeated the elaborately constructed fantasy of the right that 1977′s Community Reinvestment Act was wholly responsible for the meltdown of 2008. As though some poor folks defaulting on their mortgages in America could take down the financial system of the United States of America and other countries throughout the world. Derivatives? What’s that? Just a little insurance policy I tells ya.

For a long time, I couldn’t figure out why this “fast and furious” was a banner story every day on Fixed News, the right wing internet, and conservative talk radio. It was started by Bush and was well intentioned even if it didn’t exactly work out too well. It was a story but not a big one. It deserved some press coverage but not a lot. It deserved to be questioned, but not that circus. Even by their standards, I didn’t know how they could milk it that much. Then I finally heard the conspiracy theory. A militia blogger in Alabama started a rumour that Obama purposely walked guns to mexico to increase gun violence there and, thereby, make Americans more susceptible to having their second amendment right taken away due to creating ill will toward gun violence. Yea I know, it’s coocoo for cocoa puffs but here’s the thing: my jaw dropped when I became aware of Fixed News contributors and many Republican politicians (including Darryl Issa) repeating this conspiracy on air.

I’m showing my bias, but I blame this entirely on the conservative media. There’s no false equivalency here.

The opportunity that is missed to discredit Palin here is to exploit her blatant lie, exposing it as doublespeak and point out the reality of the current situation: death panels ALREADY exist, but within the insurance companies, not the government. It is actually common practice for insurance companies to hire doctors to look for any way, any medical loophole or technicality of definition, to deny benefits and care to the sick, for the purpose of reducing claims costs, and maximizing profits. Not just turning away ppl with pre-existing conditions, which is bad enough, but actually denying treatments to people with existing policies who are unfortunate enough to get sick. This is documented reality that can be backed up by fact. Profits above people, the mantra of corporate America and the Republican party economic platform. The protections passed in the Affordable Care Act actually prohibit such practices, effectively putting an end to death panels, NOT creating them. So if there is a fear of death panels being exploited here, it should be very easy to turn that around, but as usual the Democrats seem to drop the ball in PR and let the lies go widely unrefuted, when the rebuttals should be shouted over and over just as loudly as the lies are.

What did Lincoln say? “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” facts versus lies….