Advancing The Debate

Via Balloon Juice, it's a Town Hall Blitz in Luffabo.

Here is the video of some of the nonsense that took place outside a fundraiser for Brian Higgins last night and it’s full of crazy. My favorite was the lady yelling at me (pretty much the entire time) about how “eugenics is killing old people”. Not that I needed too, but she insisted I look it up. So I did:

Eugentics is “the study of, or belief in, the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics).” ^[2] Prominent in the late 19th century Progressive Era, eugenics became a core tenet of some of the policies behind Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.

And as I tried to tell her, it has nothing to do with old people, but she wasn’t having it.

Good luck to Obama in Montana and Colorado, is all I have to say.

[UPDATE 4:50 PM] Fresh off the win (in her own mind) over Death Panels For Trig in the Senate version of the bill, Sister Sarah has decided that the entire rest of the health care bill will kill Trig and Grandma and everyone, so we should just cut that part out too.

She writes that the plan making its way through Congress will "inevitably" lead to health care rationing. Pointing to an essay co-written earlier this year by White House health care adviser Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel — the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel — Palin claims the president wants to enact a rationing system that would "refuse to allocate medical resources to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled who have less economic potential."

BLAH BLAH BLOOGITY SCARY BLACK MAN WILL KILL GRANDMA REZKO BILL AYERS!

The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee concludes her Facebook post by attacking the cost of health care reform, which she said will only deepen the country's debt and force the president to raise taxes. "Health care is without a doubt a complex and contentious issue, but health care reform should be a market oriented solution," she writes.

Market oriented. You know, like Alaska's state budget. No federal government spending there.