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I can understand why the Left hates Palin, but when I seen negative comments about here on FR before they even check the facts out, I’m suspicious right away. These anti-Palin comments I believe are coming from 7 main sources:

1) Ron Paul supporters.

The Paulista’s hate the idea of a rejuvenated GOP for it spells trouble for Ron Paul of ever getting more than 2 or 3 % of any Primary vote. Paul will fair better by having the GOP drag out the old horses from 2008, McCain, Romney, the Huckster, etc - so look for them to drag down any new faces, especially if they are Reagan conservatives.

2) Lyndon Larouche supporters.

Granted they are Lefties, but they are expert trolls. You’ve seen their information tables outside of post offices equally bashing Republicans and Democrats. You’ve seen them infiltrate Tea Parties and Town Halls with their provocative signs that draw news cameras like flies on you know what. If they’re not holding a sign they are still easy to spot by the black sharpie in their pocket, used to draw Hitler mustaches on any politician that’s not Larouche Remember the Obama Hitler mustache signs? That will be them

3) Berthers.

I’m talking about the hard-core tinfoil hat Berthers. The ones who see Palin, Scott Brown, or any Republican as an enemy if they don’t latch on to their conspiracy theory and endorse their Berther candidates. Look folks, birth certificate or not, Obama is with us until 2012 like it or not. The war must be fought on a front where we can win, his socialist background and the path he wants to take us on that is where the fight is and must be if we want to win in 2012.

4) Scorched Earth Libertarians.

They see a RINO around every three. I don’t know how they grade conservatives, but ask one to name a Republican that is conservative enough to vote for, and they can’t give you a name. Tea party spokesman, Dale Robertson is one of these. Much like the Ron Paul people they see Palin and Scott Brown as a catalyst for the rebirth of the GOP, and a reborn GOP scares the hell out of them. I really believe they are angry at the resurgence of the GOP, because it means no chance of their Party from ever becoming any thing more than an annoyance. The scary thing is they are also trying to hijack the Tea Party and use it for their own purpose. They truly want to see 3 main parties on the Nov 2012 ballot, Republican Party, Democrat Party, & Tea Party. They need to learn a lesson about what Ross Perot did for us when he ran.

5) Hard-core Romney, or Huckabee supporters

Not everyone who supported Romney or Huckabee, or any of the other GOP candidates fall into this category, but there are a large number of them that are very jealous of this young Caribou Barbee upstart from Eskimo country who knocked their candidate off the radar screen. They fall prey to the news media stories about Palin being dumb as a box of rocks, and they are eager to assist the media by forwarding to forums and their e-mail address books any story critical of Palin. These are the most annoying of all because they really should know better than to assist liberals in dragging down conservatives.

6) IVY League Republicans.

Intellectuals who look down their noses at people from Alaska, or Fly-over Country.

7) Trolls from the DU

Great post! You hit the nail on the head.

I think this particular story is a great litmus test. Those who jumped all over this to bash her, calling this a “gaffe” or worse yet a “lie” without checking the facts are, for the most part, not real conservatives, but Mittbots, Paul-estinians, Libertarian Extremist Wackos, elitist RINOs or Lefty Trolls.

Normally, when a politician says something that sounds a bit off, I immdiately assume they are most likely lying. That is not the case with Palin.

As far as I can recall, Sarah Palin has never been caught in lie, which is one of the things that makes her so different than most politicians.

Palin was pointing out that back in the 1960’s, before socialized medicine ravaged the Canadian healtcare system, it actually made sense for some Americans to cross the border to purchase healthcare, but now Canadians are often forced to cross the border to get decent care.

Also, anyone who bothered to check would see that her family lived in tiny Skagway, (near Canada), not Wasila, at the time.

MOst of the negative attacks on Palin in this thread were from Palin supporters, denying she said the quote (which has now been confirmed as at least coming from a news source, and for which Palin hasn’t said it was wrong), or saying that she must not have said it because it would be stupid to say it.

Since it is just about confirmed that she did say it, they seem to be on record calling her stupid.

Meanwhile, some of us are trying to point out that the statement makes sense, that there is nothing bad about it, and that the interpretation of it by the left is what is wrong — of course, the interpretation of her comments by her supporters was just as wrong, and damaging.

Meanwhile, people who are just trying to help the deluded into realizing that Palin’s comments are not bad are being labeled “anti-Palin”, while those who deny she could have said them are being called her “true friends”.

Well, give me enemies over “true friends” who think denying my own words to me is helpful.