But sometimes a crowd is just a mob that happens to be sitting down.”
AND sometimes a columnist, is just a homo looking for his next gig....
What a puke this Roger Simon is.
Blitzer: “But congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?”
Paul: “No.”
OK, so who pays?
The next morning, Perry, probably after being briefed by his handlers, told reporters: “I was a bit taken aback by that myself. We’re the party of life. We ought to be coming up with ways to save lives.”
But I didn’t hear any good ideas from Perry either. Again, who pays for the sick guy who has no money and no insurance?
“...many news organizations carried the story that Ron Paul’s former campaign manager, a libertarian, died at age 49 in 2008 from viral pneumonia, was uninsured and left $400,000 in medical bills for his mother and friends to pay.”
How does one leave debts to one’s mother and friends? Did they somehow obligate themselves to pay?
I know an administration apologist who is a lawyer and is over 50, a smoker and no health ins. I think it’s irresponsible, but she does it. And she shares prescriptions, has her kids share inhalers...........I told her I couldn’t talk about it anymore; I didn’t agree with it. She accuses anyone who has a policy difference with the administration of “hate”.
On the plus side, she is pro-life.
I don’t mind liberals perceiving conservatives as savages to be feared. Sometimes I wish it were true.
Regardless of Paul’s, Perry’s, or anyone’s answer to the hypothetical posed, it is ridiculous for the media to cling to crowd reaction. We could compile a laundry list of youtube videos depicting liberal/Democrat crowds cheering violence, racism, etc. The desperation is palpable.
WE ARE NOT THE PARTY THAT MURDERS... DIMS ARE THE PARTY OF MURDER... THEY KILL AND THEN SELL BABIES... THE MOST INNOCENT AMONGST US.
LLS
"When Simon dies, he intends to be buried in Chicago, so he can still participate in the politics of that city."
To be fair, it was a hypothetical sick person's hypothetical death.
who cares what they say anymore- they obviously missed the point.
The audience member was responding to the IDOCY of the question, not expressing an actual desire for death of a less fortunate.
Ron Paul's BRILLIANT answer was lost in all this discussion over an audience jeer- which is probably their intention.
He [Paul] said that before the government took over everything people were never turned away from hospitals or churches when they needed help.
No one was left dying in the streets because THE GOVERNMENT was not mandating it.
It is not a Government or Nothing problem, as the question implies.
Another Libtard. Another Axelrod inspired lie.
[Art.] Jacob Weisberg of Slate called the audience reaction “medieval,” Tommy Christopher of Mediaite called it “ugly” and “ghoulish” and many news organizations carried the story that Ron Paul’s former campaign manager, a libertarian, died at age 49 in 2008 from viral pneumonia, was uninsured and left $400,000 in medical bills for his mother and friends to pay.
That's the payload -- ugly, piggish, nasty, hateful, love-to-hurt Rethuglicans! And mind that Blitzer was in on the play, because he broached the subject with Ron Paul.
This was a called MSM play on Ron Paul and the GOP -- they went to Paul because he'd be most likely to say, "well, the guy wouldn't buy insurance, so he is responsible for his own bills", which they could then spin. But the audience rooting for Paul and against the obvious "throw Granny in the snow" headline play, gave them their peg -- Monstrous Rethuglicans Et Cetera.