Palin Nailin the President

Or at least she thinks she is. I’ve grown so tired and weary of the tea party and the Sarah Palindrones. I have a good friend whom I used to be able to discuss politics with. She’s a Republican. The other day she told me that the health care bill was one more way the federal government could reach its hands into our lives and control us and that if she ever needed to go in for hip replacement surgery (she’s 35) a federal health board could decide the odds are against her and it’s not worth funding her operation so she wouldn’t get the surgery. She said, “This happens in Europe, not in America!” I guess in response to the incredulous look on my face she added, “Oh, I know that’s not in the bill they passed but it will be eventually.” How exactly? Her crazy ramblings left me feeling depressed.

Which brings me to Sarah Palin. She’s jumped all over Obama for saying:

It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them. And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure.

Palin took issue because she believed he doesn’t think we should like being a dominant military superpower. Liberal bloggers say she misunderstood the President and he was actually saying whether we like it or not we always get pulled into conflicts. I guess I don’t see what the big deal is either way. Maybe we don’t like being a dominant military superpower because we will always have to show up as the world police. Or maybe he’s saying whether we like it or not we always get pulled into wars.

Why is it always about patriotism and “real America” with Palin? This whole notion that their idea of America is the only right idea is the most un-American philosophy they could have. If Palin and her drones had been present for the writing of the Constitution or at any of the Constitutional conventions they would have been joining in with the anti-Constitutional crowd saying the Articles of Confederation were the best way to go and that James Madison didn’t know what the hell he was talking about.

I guess I’m just really hoping that the “real America” crowd starts their own party with Sarah Palin as their distinguished leader. The Republicans ought to be able to weed out the weirdos that way.