Well up to this point the issue unfortunately hasn't had good enough traction to get it done. .
"That's false. Ms. Palin herself cited several instances where it did have enough traction to be enacted into law ... without her help."
I've been reading through this thread - oh, give me a break!
We are talking about whether or not tort reform has been a significant part of the current debate on a national level. It has NOT. The libs have not addressed it at all, except by not addressing it, as clearly shown by other posters, above. Conservative leaders have so far failed to even cause a ripple.
Palin's piece is not perfect, true. But Ronald Reagan himself, I am sure, could and probably did on many an occaision go back and critique a lot of his own writings, later. So, I am not so concerned that Palin's piece does not read like it has been written by someone who has been penning "deep" policy articles for decades. What she has done is write an article that gets a specific part of the health care debate out in front of more people, and shown more people who otherwise would hear only the MSM / libs that conservatives DO have some ideas on improving the system. She has done this with an argument / words an average person can understand, and pointed out some specific examples of those ideas having a positive effect (something the Dems cannot do, I would add!)
It's just a little ripple, true. It's not even perfectly concentric. But, at least it's a ripple, and she's willing and able to make it.
I'll take it.
Messrs. DeMint and Corker would probably take exception to that comment. As would the pundits who have been saying unkind things about their efforts to advance the topic.