Hugh Hewitt interviewed Sarah Palin, and she made a good case for electing a real person to the office of VP. She also made it clear that she’s the only candidate in recent memory to have experienced the day-to-day health care travails of the average working person:
Early on in our marriage, we didn’t have health insurance, and we had to either make the choice of paying out of pocket for catastrophic coverage or just crossing our fingers, hoping that nobody would get hurt, nobody would get sick.
But, unlike her opponent, she understands that more government meddling in the health care market is not the answer:
I support flexibility in government regulations that allow competition in health care that is needed, and is proven to be good for the consumer, which will drive down health care costs and reduce the need for government subsidies.
So, who are we to trust: someone who has actually been there or the hopelessly out-of-touch Joe Biden? In other words, do we need a real human being like Palin or a corrupt buffoon?
It will be interesting to see if Gwen Ifill, the moderator of tomorrow’s debate whose fawning book proves she’s in the tank for Obama, asks a question that gets anywhere near this basic issue.
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I have to hand it you David - you have a terrific knack for making the opposite point to the one intended. So ‘real people’ are suffering under your ’system’ - which is what I keep trying to tell you. And Sarah Palin wants to keep it that way - she didn’t support the SCHIP expansion to 10,000 poor working families in Alsaka, meaning that kids in her state have the third worst provision of all states. And a little quiz for you. Who said: ‘Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation’?
Posted 01 Oct 2008 at 10:26 am ¶Mr. Brown, I think the point of the post is that Palin has a better handle than Biden on what life is like for ordinary working people.
So, the question is who is more likely to back health care reform that considers the needs of the ordinary voter.
I think it would be difficult to claim that Biden is that person.
Posted 02 Oct 2008 at 6:42 am ¶wow. she was able to memorize that much of McCain’s exact words? A whole sentence? Maybe she is a bit smarter than she sounds when she does not have a McCain campaign line to spew out.
That is also the most unproductive, generic answer ever.
Posted 02 Oct 2008 at 3:02 pm ¶Marc,
McCain said that, and he’s right, of course. Wait a minute - are you one of those people who thinks that the terms “regulation” (or “change” for that matter) have discrete policy definitions? Go ahead and try to find a single person who can plausibly connect national competition among banks with the current credit crisis. I would be very interested to read it.
Posted 02 Oct 2008 at 3:09 pm ¶“wow. she was able to memorize that much of McCain’s exact words?”
If you were “a bit smarter,” dave, you would realize that Palin said this more than 2 years before McCain picked her as his running mate.
Oh, and BTW, you might want to take a remedial course in grammar, dude. That would help you sound “a bit smarter.”
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