Palin knows how to use 'em

Palin knows how to use 'em

MBA

Maybe the example being set by Sarah Palin — in which she’s firmly and without hesitation stood up to the Barack Obama propaganda machine time after time when it comes to death panels and ObamaCare — is finally starting to catch the attention of male Republican legislators.

It certainly seemed to have worked with South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson.  Last night — in an unguarded moment that’s no doubt going to be used by Democrats in an effort to distract attention from Mr. Obama’s completely vacuous health care speech — Wilson just couldn’t stand the President’s use of the Big Lie any longer.

Upon being assured by Obama that illegal immigrants would not — under any circumstance — be able to avail themselves of health care services under the contemplated health reform plan (are we allowed to call it that now or is it still “health insurance reform”?), Wilson loudly shouted “You lie!”

Perhaps he’d learned how to engage in such behavior from his Democratic colleagues, who certainly perfected the art back during George W. Bush’s 2005 State of the Union address and on a couple of other occasions.

At that time, Democrats were frothy-mouthed with rage at the temerity Bush displayed in trying to push through social security reform, though the attempt eventually fell by the wayside when the president finally decided to pack it in and move on to greener and easier pastures.

Was he just tired of the lies?

Was he just tired of the lies?

And Sarah Palin, demonstrating once again who wears the pants (and the very nice women’s business suits) in the Republican Party, struck back hard at critics of her assertion that ObamaCare would lead to government-run “death panels including at Barack Obama, who singled her out as a liar in one section of the speech.

Demonstrating a good grasp of the tactical and the strategic, Palin took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal on September 8th day before the president’s hoped-for “game changing” speech that was anything but) to take her critics, especially Mr. Obama, to school. 

I have to say she made a pretty solid argument and correctly pointed out how the President’s preferred method for delivering health care to the masses — for our own good, naturally — would lead to a vast, gray bureacracy that will create far more problems than it will ever solve…and WILL lead to de facto “death panels.”

Certainly, Joe Wilson’s gotten the message.  And his short, terse reading from the “Book of Sarah” is resonating throughout the nation today.  Of course, those die-hard Obama supporters who fall down in ecstasy at even a small burp from the President  will caterwaul at the effrontery exhibited by Mr. Wilson.

But those who had doubts already, and are very nervous about losing complete and total control of the choices they and their doctors currently engage in among themselves, will remember Wilson’s forceful imitation of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” and they’ll not be so quick to say “Oh…it’s all good now.  Honey, let’s send the President our life savings to help “the cause.”"

Sarah Palin, becoming ever more cagey and savvy, still has the advantage of being the attacker, and it continues to look like Barack Obama is on the defensive, striking out blindly and calling on various labor unions to do his fighting for him.