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Palin Exposed
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| July 2, 2009
| David Frum
Posted on 07/02/2009 1:25:38 PM PDT by yongin
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To: yongin
David Frum is such an incredible Ass. He is the most stupid and lazy of all so called conservative columnists.
This entire article is a retread of the Vanity Fair article, itself an unsubstantiated politically motivated Hit Job.
Let me explain something, I am smarter than this idiot, and a better writer to boot. Hey, David how about you STFU for a change. At least until you can formulate an original and intelligent thought. That should keep you quiet until the Rapture.
To: yongin
Qui Bono - for whom the benefit? I am certain that her detractors, once known, will be shown to be those who stand to gain by the GOP nominee being someone other than Sarah.
To: Diogenesis
Funny how that one name keeps coming up...
Over and over and over again...
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posted on
07/02/2009 1:46:44 PM PDT
by
ejonesie22
(Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
To: TommyDale
Not just Mark Huckabee but Mike Huckabee too :-)
To: yongin
45
posted on
07/02/2009 1:47:10 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
To: yongin
Frum is in a contest with himself to continuously out-moron himself. This is a complete flaming idiot who is not only unsure of his own convictions, he is in the process of shifting to the left. So why anyone should give a crap about what he mumbles is quite beyond me.
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posted on
07/02/2009 1:48:11 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
To: mvpel
They’re trying to conflate Palin and zero (who seriously does have NPD) in the minds of conservatives. Too bad for them that it is clear they and their RINO ilk have FAR more in common with zero than Gov. Palin ever could...
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posted on
07/02/2009 1:48:46 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Take back the language: Obama axing Chrystler dealers based on political donations is REAL fascism!)
To: avacado
Frum was the political genius who joined the Guiliani campaign last year. How’d that work out, Mr. Frum?
To: yongin
We saw what happened to Palin and if this is all they have how did this become a story? Really this is small petty stuff, the same kind of rumors, lies, and pettiness that has been used before and for what? I have my suspicions that who is behind this is in the Romney Camp. This the same group that ran a rumor mill against Fred Thompson. The question that needs to be asked is why is Romney even in consideration? His record is one of a liberal, he is out there embarrassing himself touting his Massachusetts Health Plan something which is unpopular and costly. He also spent the most money of any primary candidate and lost. Now why would you want such an individual to run again? Palin is not perfect but this smallness from insiders and detractors is only going to make her more popular.
We don’t need someone who can win so we can lead we need someone who can lead so we can win. Obama did not win based upon the details, he won based upon platitudes and grand vision not nuance. He won with outright lies. That Palin is a target of his supporters and those from inside the beltway who want us to support a northeastern liberal Republican is telling. Yes they don’t want us to back Palin, they want us to back our own John Kerry.
Sarah should show them all. She should beef up and give a big policy speech aimed directly at them. Not that she hasn’t. She has given many intelligent well thought out speeches on energy, conservative ideas, and even the economy but these same detractors are still focusing on a few flubbed interviews which were flubbed largely because of the McCain staff not doing their job to manage the press.
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posted on
07/02/2009 1:49:11 PM PDT
by
Maelstorm
(Sarah Palin 2012 (Who else in the GOP is man enough?))
To: tumblindice
On the one side, the president of the United States: soft-spoken and conciliatory, never angry, always invoking the recession and its victims. This president invokes the language of responsibility, and in his own life seems to epitomize that ideal: He is physically honed and disciplined, his worst vice an occasional cigarette. He is at the same time an apparently devoted husband and father. Unsurprisingly, women voters trust and admire him.
Frum = FAG
To: yongin
In a nutshell, it appears that a lot of McCain’s “braintrust” wanted to remake her in the McCain mold and, thank goodness, she resisted becoming a RINO like him.
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posted on
07/02/2009 1:49:59 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Restore The Constitution - No Foreigners Masquerading as POTUS!)
To: exist
More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palins extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of narcissistic personality disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disordersa pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathyand thought it fit her perfectly. This is VERBATIM from Andrew Sullivan's latest "article". So Frum can't even think for himself, but has to plagiarize Sully!
52
posted on
07/02/2009 1:50:19 PM PDT
by
Don W
(People who think are a threat to socialism)
To: TommyDale
Huckabee (Mike, that is) has absolutely no chance of political success on the national level.
To: joejm65
Joe Biden doesn’t know what planet he is on yet people think he is a genius..for God’s sake, if something happens to Obama, we got Joe Biden as President, anyone concerned, I sure as heck am. The election happened, what, 8 months ago, why the hell are they bringing up this nonsense now, they should seriously get over it, the election is over, they lost, move on..no, instead they gotta keep bashing Sarah, why, she busted her ass every single day, going to 6 rallies per day, in the rain, snow, and high wind, she was tired as hell but still did it, why, because she wanted to WIN, McCain NEVER wanted to win. We all saw his acceptance speech, that was the most boring ass acceptance speech I Have EVER seen. I Knew right then he had no intention of wanting to win, he was just using Sarah to prop up his ass, and when he lost, he had someone to blame.
I never gave money to any politician in my whole life, but when Sarah came aboard, I gave money, why, because she is the real deal, when I called, I said this money was for Sarah, NOT for McCain, and they knew it, they hated how Sarah stole their spotlight. The Republican party makes me sick. I’d rather Sarah create another party, the Conservative party, I know some say we would have no chance if we created a new party, but you know what, I don’t care, I’d rather belong to a party with people who don’t go around backstabbing each other in the back to screw someone over then be in a party like the Republican party who doesn’t know who the hell they are
To: SparkyBass
Ever read C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength? Young Mr. Studdock is employed to write articles for newspapers explaining everything... making the news, forming the nation's opinion for the unwitting masses. "He approved of vivisection, but he had never worked in a dissecting room. He recommended that certain classes of people should be gradually eliminated: but he had never been there when a small shopkeeper went to the workhouse or a starved old woman of the governess type came to the very last day and hour and minute in the cold attic. He knew nothing about the last half cup of cocoa drunk slowly ten days before...
"He was a man a straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling. And his head ached so terribly and he felt so sick. Luckily he now kept a bottle of whisky in his room A stiff one enabled him to shave and dress."
Cheers!
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posted on
07/02/2009 1:51:55 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: SparkyBass
"Mark Gainsby Frum, it is my duty to arrest you for the smearing of Sarah Palin." /sarc>
Cheers!
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posted on
07/02/2009 1:52:36 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: x
Mitt Romney showing his pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior),
and his need for admiration, and lack of empathyas the little socialist dictator installs ROMNEYCARE-1.
ROMNEYCARE-2 was his proposal of US medical care for Hezb'allah
"Massachusetts Universal Healthcare System Breaking Down Already
When Governor Mitt Romney instituted a universal healthcare plan for Massachusetts in 2006 he proclaimed it a conservative idea.
But has it worked? Has it been successful?
For a time, many thought it might but cracks in the system are already being seen.
These cracks are instructive as a lesson on how Obamacare will crash and burn just like Romneycare is now in the process of doing.
One of the early claims that helped push Romneycare through to law was the insistence by its supporters that Emergency Room visits would fall as more and more citizens became covered under healthcare insurance.
Since ER care is far more expensive than a doctor's care, it was thought that more people with insurance would ease the overcrowding of ERs as well as lower the overall costs of healthcare.
However, a flaw in this logic has been seen throughout the state. As more people became insured, more people demanded the care of doctors. These doctors became overloaded with patients and waiting lists for doctors got longer and longer.
As a result, ERs in Massachusetts have not seen a downturn in visits. On the contrary, it seems that ER visits are actually on the upswing in the Bay State. In fact, in 2007 they were higher than the national average by 20 percent...
"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"
"Patients were allegedly left screaming in pain and drinking from flower vases on a nightmare hospital ward.
Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust over three years, a damning Healthcare Commission report said.
The watchdog's investigation found inadequately trained staff who were too few in number, junior doctors left alone in charge at night and patients left without food, drink or medication as their operations were repeatedly cancelled.
Patients were left in pain or forced to sit in soiled bedding for hours at a time and were not given their regular medication, the Commission heard.
Receptionists with no medical training were expected to assess patients coming in to A&E, some of whom needed urgent care.
Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, said there had been a "gross and terrible breach" of patients' trust and a "complete failure of leadership".
The Healthcare Commission's chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said the investigation followed concerns about a higher than normal death rate at the Trust, which senior managers could not explain.
He said: "The resulting report is a shocking story. Our report tells a story of appalling standards of care and chaotic systems for looking after patients. These are words I have not previously used in any report.
"There were inadequacies in almost every stage of caring for patients. There was no doubt that patients will have suffered and some of them will have died as a result."
Julie Bailey, 47, was so concerned about the care being given to her 86-year-old mother Bella at Stafford Hospital that she and her relatives slept in a chair at her bedside for eight weeks.
She said: "We saw patients drinking out of..."
"Paramedics told: 'Let accident victims die if they want to' in new row over patient rights (UK)"
Health Service paramedics have been told not to resuscitate terminally-ill patients who register on a controversial new database to say they want to die.
It has been set up by the ambulance service in London for hundreds of people who have only a few months to live so that they may register their 'death wishes' in advance.
It is believed to be the first in the country, but other trusts around the country are expected to follow suit to comply with Government guidelines which state that patients' wishes should be taken into account, even at the point of death.
Patients' groups and doctors have welcomed the scheme, but it has met opposition from pro-life groups who say it violates the sanctity of life.
The system would come into play if a cancer patient, for example, was in serious pain and rang 999 for help to alleviate the suffering.
But if the paramedics arrived and the patient was close to death, he or she would not be resuscitated if such a request was registered on the database.
This would also be the case if a patient on the database was being transferred between hospitals, and had a heart attack.
Dominica Roberts from the Pro-Life Alliance said: 'This is very sad and very dangerous. It's another step along the slippery slope, at the bottom of which is euthanasia as we see in Holland. 'Paramedics should be there to save lives. They should not be there to let patients die. The medical profession should not agree with someone's belief that their life is worthless.'"
"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
"Three years ago, the former Massachusetts Governor had the inadvertent good sense to create the "universal" health-care program that the White House and Congress now want to inflict on the entire country.
It is proving to be instructive, as Mr. Romney's foresight previews what President Obama, Max Baucus, Ted Kennedy and Pete Stark are cooking up for everyone else.
In Massachusetts's latest crisis, Governor Deval Patrick and his Democratic colleagues are starting to move down the path that government health plans always follow when spending collides with reality -- i.e., price controls.
As costs continue to rise, the inevitable results are coverage restrictions and waiting periods. It was only a matter of time.
They're trying to manage the huge costs of the subsidized middle-class insurance program that is gradually swallowing the state budget.
The program provides low- or no-cost coverage to about 165,000 residents, or three-fifths of the newly insured, and is budgeted at $880 million for 2010, a 7.3% single-year increase that is likely to be optimistic.
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006.
What really whipped along RomneyCare were claims that health care would be less expensive if everyone were covered.
But reducing costs while increasing access are irreconcilable issues.
Mr. Romney should have known better before signing on to this not-so-grand experiment, especially since the state's "free market" reforms that he boasts about have proven to be irrelevant when not fictional.
Only 21,000 people have used the "connector" that was supposed to link individuals to private insurers."
A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay States Grand Experiment Fails [RomneyCare]
"The Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Va. - 2009-03-31 "
"For folks increasingly leery of President Obamas plan to radically overhaul Americas health-care system,
or 17 percent of the nations economy, all this could hardly have come at a better time
that is, fiscal troubles aplenty within Repubican Mitt Romneys brainchild, Massachusetts grand experiment in universal health care."
"Initiated on Mr. Romneys gubernatorial watch in 2006, this experiment has fallen on hard times, and predictably so.
Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide,
RomneyCare is threatening to bankrupt the state. Budgeted for Fiscal Year 2010 at $880 million,
or 7.3 percent more than a year ago, this plan, aimed at providing low- or no-cost health coverage to roughly 165,000 residents,
has caused Massachusetts overall expenditures on all health-related programs to jump an astounding 42 percent since 2006.
So what does Mr. Romneys successor, Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, propose as a remedy for these skyrocketing costs?
Well, whaddya think? The standard litany of prescriptions (no pun intended) price controls and spending caps, for a start, and then, again predictably, waiting periods and limitations on coverage.
As in Europe and Canada, so too in Massachusetts. And, we feel certain, everyone from Mr. Romney to Mr. Patrick said, It would never happen here.
But then, such things are inevitable when best-laid plans, with all their monstrous costs, run smack-dab into fiscal reality.
"Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry"
Thousands of patients with terminal cancer were dealt a blow last night after a decision was made to deny them life prolonging drugs.
The Government's rationing body said two drugs for advanced breast cancer and a rare form of stomach cancer were too expensive for the NHS.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is expected to confirm guidance in the next few weeks that will effectively ban their use.
The move comes despite a pledge by Nice to be more flexible in giving life-extending drugs
to terminally-ill cancer patients after a public outcry last year over 'death sentence' decisions."
"Patients Forced To Wait Hours In Ambulances Parked Outside A&E Departments
"An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found that thousands of 999 patients are being left to wait in ambulances in car parks and holding bays, or in hospital corridors in some cases for more than five hours before they can even join the queue for urgent treatment.
Experts warn that hospitals are deliberately delaying when they accept patients or are diverting them to different sites
in order to meet Government targets to treat people within fours hours of admitting them."
"Cancer survivor confronts the health secretary on 62-day wait (UK Socialized Medicine)
WAITING times for cancer treatment need to be cut, the Scottish Government was told yesterday.
..Cancer experts later said that patients elsewhere in Europe would be "outraged" by having to wait two months to start treatment, with most being seen within two weeks.
The current target of 62 days from urgent referral by a doctor to starting treatment has still not been met in Scotland, despite that originally being the target figure for 2005."
"Hospital patient so shocked at dirty ward she climbed out of bed to clean it herself
After 12 years cleaning care homes and private houses, no one is better qualified than Tereza Tosbell to say whether a room is spotless.
So hospital bosses should take heed of her opinion after she spent four days on a 'filthy' ward.
The mother-of-one said during her stay there was a single, brief visit from a cleaner who left dusty curtains, dirty bedframes and a messy floor.
Disgusted at the conditions, she grabbed the antibacterial fluid dispenser at the end of her bed and some hand towels from the bathroom.
She then set about cleaning her four-bed ward, at one point dropping to her hands and knees to sanitise the floor as she dragged her drip trolley behind her.
'It was shameful to see how sloppy the cleaners were while I was there. I was not prepared to put up with such conditions,'
said Miss Tosbell, a 48-year-old divorcee who was admitted to Colchester General Hospital in Essex with an abscess in her neck.."
"Kidney cancer patients denied life-saving drugs by NHS rationing body NICE (UK Socialized Medicine)
Thousands of kidney cancer patients are likely to lose out on life-prolonging drugs.
The NHS rationing body, NICE, has confirmed a ban on three out of four new treatments.
.. 'Families will be denied time together and doctors will be unable to give patients the best treatment.'."
"Girl, 3, has heart operation cancelled three times because of bed shortage (UK Socialized Medicine)
A three-year-old girl awaiting heart surgery has had her operation cancelled three times this month because of a shortage of beds.
... A hospital spokesman said that procedures would be reviewed, but the case highlights a growing problem of cancelled operations in the NHS.
More than 57,000 surgeries were postponed for non-clinical reasons, including a lack of beds, last year 10 per cent more than the previous year."
To: yongin
Let them spin their fairytales. I am not interested in what the bottom feeders have to say.
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posted on
07/02/2009 1:52:57 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: yongin
“But you’d think they would at least care whether she could campaign competently.”
So I guess that Frum /spit didn’t notice the crowds Gov. Palin drew and still draws? That a large percentage of those who voted for McLame were really voting for Gov. Palin? Or does this idiot think that those were coincidences that had nothing to do with how well Gov. Palin did on the campaign trail, all despite the backstabbing by the McCain staff and Mittbot infiltrators?
Seriously, Frum is a moron...
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posted on
07/02/2009 1:53:19 PM PDT
by
piytar
(Take back the language: Obama axing Chrystler dealers based on political donations is REAL fascism!)
To: yongin
Libs and the MittWitts are in a frenzy.
They know Gov. Palin is the only Conservative Republicn
who can take on Obama.
Since they can’t defend their own guy, they spit out
lies and smears against Gov. Palin.
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posted on
07/02/2009 1:53:54 PM PDT
by
SoCalPol
(Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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