Democrats Endorse Sarah Palin

The Democratic leaders might as well have announced their intention of getting Sarah Palin into the White House in 2012 when they pushed, bullied, cajoled, bribed, and generally strongarmed their in-party dissidents plus a couple of Independents into voting for the so called Senate Health Care Plan. As television coverage of the Viet Nam War brought the horror of true combat into the average American living room (circa 1970), so has today's TV coverage shown us the horror of Politicians on Crack.

Well, they must be. How else to explain their blind arrogance in jamming a humongous stack of exorbitantly expensive laws down our throats despite clear knowledge that the majority of citizens in these United States oppose passage of the bill?

We've all heard about this or that foolish person "shooting himself in the foot", a reference not unlike "cutting off your nose to spite your face". Such sayings are good...but not nearly strong enough to illustrate the depth of damage those on the left of the political spectrum have already done to their own party. Not even "dig their own graves" is powerful enough to get the point across.

Yesterday, I heard a radio talk show host comment on the Democratic willingness to ignore the will of the public. He suspects the Dems believe that:

1. They know best--We The People are lessser in our expertise.

2. Once the Health Care Reform is an accomplished fact, and we all realize how wonderful it turned out to be, they'll be heroes, not goats.

He may be right. However, the degree to which these people (the Democrat Senators) do not have their fingers on the pulse of the public is still impressive. One steady heartbeat for anyone interested in American politics to monitor is the trend of political cartoons appearing in daily newspapers. Any politician who is seriously the butt of a major cartoonist's twisted sense of humor...should take heed. And today's cartoon by Stahler of The Columbus Dispatch makes it clear that having politicians handle health care is not exactly the cat's meow.

There's the old saw about a camel being a horse that was built by committee. In the cartoon, the speaker is a patient who whose health care was handled by politicians. The speaker (whose body parts have clearly been rearranged, and not to his benefit), "I think I was better off before politicians got involved with health care reform."

No duh.

The mood of the country reflects this out of balance situation rather strongly. I'm now sixty-six years of age and have been voting for the past forty-five years. Never before have I seen this much attention being paid to who just might run for election nearly three years before it's time to go to the polls. An example of this unusually early focus occurred last night on the Jay Leno Show. His guest was Glenn Beck. It turned out that Glenn's appearance was primarily to tout his most recent book, Arguing With Idiots, and to "promote his plug", Mr. Beck chose to bake lard-laden Christmas cookies according to a recipe from his grandmother.

As they were proceeding to the cooking area, Jay asked Glenn who he thought might run for President on the G.O.P. ticket in 2012. Glenn seemed more focused on baking cookies than on his answer, but he did eventually give sort of a non-answer. Jay then followed up with a second question:

Jay: "Do you think Sarah Palin could run?"

Glenn: "Oh, sure. I like her. I'd need to know more about her, though."

Jay: "Me too."

Never mind that this snippet of conversation seemed to indicate that neither Jay nor Glenn had yet read Sarah's best selling memoir, Going Rogue. They're both busy men, the book has only been available for a little more than a month, and besides, friends might give them copies for Christmas. No, the point which jumped out at me was:

Jay Leno felt it was a topic worth bringing up at this point in time.

Which is after Sarah's explosively successful book tour and still many, many months prior to the actual fight for the Republican nomination.

If mandatory health care could actually perform as advertised by the left (increasing coverage and lowering cost at the same time)...but it can't. It cannot do that, and the fallout for Democrats (I predict) will be enormous. Many of those pushing for Health Care Reform today may well be pushing up political daisies in midterm elections. In the end, the backlash could cost them the brass ring and indeed produce not only a Sarah Palin nomination but a Sarah Palin Presidency, just as if the Donkey folks had endorsed her in fact.