August 09 ,2009
The Liar: Sarah Palin. Now that she's left the gubernatorial seat in Alaska, Sarah Palin has begun using her Facebook page to launch her first foray into the 2012 presidential race with a salvo at Obama's health care plan that rivals Limbaugh's Swastika strategy.
Palin: Playing the Dead Baby Card.
But Palin's critique is far more likely to strike a deeply emotional chord with the Christian Right. Her charge: Obama's "Death Panel" would, ahem, have terminated the life of Trig Palin, her Down Syndrome baby:
The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but...it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
