Health Care BS

Last night, I posted the video of Palin’s complete speech to the Nashville Tea Party convention. It had plenty of red meat, of course, but it was a generally good-natured exercise in loyal opposition.

But you could never tell that from the response of our “progressive” friends. Immediately following her address to the convention, these nasty little trolls began sputtering the usual invective. 

Here’s a video of Bob “Seven-time Loser” Shrum describing the speech as a “masterful exercise in paranoid politics … she came across to me as a merchant of hate with an oh gosh smile”:

Another example of this over-the-top Saraphobia comes from Salon, where Joan Walsh calls Palin a “snarling pitbull in shimmery lipstick.” The unintentional irony absolutely gushes from this passage:

Palin is one of the meanest people on the public stage today. She wallows in it. She loves it! Also? Possibly one of the dumbest. But mean works, and so does dumb. And so do lies, and there were many mean, dumb lies in her speech.

And no post about Sarahphobia would be complete without the maunderings of Andrew Sullivan. Showing an obviously photoshopped pic of someone’s hand, he promulgates a new anti-Palin canard:

Having mocked president Obama for using a TelePrompter … she had to scribble down her priorities as president on her palm for the truly tough-as-nails Q and A she had to endure for ten minutes or so last night.

Sigh … These people really are … well … Rahm Emanual’s now-infamous term comes to mind. I guess they’ll never figure out that this hateful stuff is a big reason why people are drawn to Palin.

It’s not just the lies about her speech, her book, etc. Most normal people look at gremlins like Shrum and Sullivan and think: “Anyone these characters hate can’t be all bad.”