The "death panel" remark was a stroke of genius. She clearly has Obama and the Dems rattled.
She is inside Obama's OODA loop.
Posted on 08/11/2009 10:59:52 AM PDT by curth
This poll was taken after Governor Palin released her Facebook statement criticizing President Obama's healthcare bill.
Rasmussen Reports:
Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low as just 42% of U.S. voters now favor the plan. That’s down five points from two weeks ago and down eight points from six weeks ago.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that opposition to the plan has increased to 53%, up nine points since late June. More significantly, 44% of voters strongly oppose the health care reform effort versus 26% who strongly favor it. Intensity has been stronger among opponents of the plan since the debate began.
Sixty-seven percent (67%) of those under 30 favor the plan while 56% of those over 65 are opposed. Among senior citizens, 46% are strongly opposed. Predictably, 69% of Democrats favor the plan, while 79% of Republicans oppose it. Yet while 44% of Democratic voters strongly favor the reform effort, 70% of GOP voters are strongly opposed to it.
Most notable, however, is the opposition among voters not affiliated with either party. Sixty-two percent (62%) of unaffiliated voters oppose the health care plan, and 51% are strongly opposed. This marks an uptick in strong opposition among both Republicans and unaffiliateds, while the number of strongly supportive Democrats is unchanged.
Read the entire Rasmussen Poll summary here.http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/august_2009/support_for_congressional_health_care_reform_falls_to_new_low
Furthermore, this is from a poll conducted on AOL (results as of this morning) http://news.aol.com/article/palin-calls-obama-health-plan-evil/608570?icid=main%7Cmain%7Cdl1%7Clink4%7Chttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fpalin-calls-obama-health-plan-evil%2F608570
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Thank you for saying this, SB.
Don’t forget that AOL poll conducted over the last 3 days to the question Do you agree with Palin’s characterization of Obama’s health plan as “evil”? that 59% agree with Palin.
I think she was the catalyst for cutting through the BS on Obamacare and crystallizing viewpoints. IMHO, that is what leadership is all about.
Obama has to blame someone.
He cant blame George Bush, so who is next? Sarah Palin.
I’m surprised I haven’t yet heard of a major MSM voice mocking “That quitter? What does she have to do with this?”
Thank you and I hope you understand why sometimes I call Sarah's sometimes overly enthusiastic supporters, "kool aid drinkers".
I beg to differ, but am way too lazy to actually fact check the precise point when the "town halls" started heating up. I believe it was prior to Mrs. Palin's well received "Facebook" publication calling ObamaCare "downright evil". I wish she had made a different word choice--like calling the plan "Un-American," thereby preempting Pelosi and company from using that word against dissenters.
Anyway, after the Facebook entry, she turned around and called for "restraint." What effect are we measuring?
The "death panel" remark was a stroke of genius. She clearly has Obama and the Dems rattled.
She is inside Obama's OODA loop.
That is exactly right. She has mastered the art of political ju jitsu.
The woman is amazing.
No, she’s not responsible totally.
But why did Obama keep talking about “death panels” today if she hasn’t influenced the discussion? She is the only person to use the term death panel.
And between the “death panel” note and the “use restraint” note, you conveniently left out the 2 posts quoting more than a dozen sources, from WaPo to National Review to the Cato Institute, backing up her first statement.
So she is doing more than making hyperbolic statements; she is backing them up with sources - though the media and many readers are too lazy to look up her sources.
The sun came up today, and I’m sure it’s only because of Palin.
Creator-endowed life and liberty are authentic ideas, which, when protected by a written "people's" constitution limiting the power of their government, become a reality for millions of oppressed people from all the world. Witness America for its first 200 years!
Allowing silver-tongued orators to supplant "the people" and their constitutional limits on coercive government power by offering promises of handouts for all is a counterfeit idea and has led to oppressive taxation, debt, and slavery of people wherever it has been allowed.
Reagan understood that the "beacon of liberty" relies on enduring principles, called by the Founders, "self-evident" truths. More importantly, he could articulate those ideas!
Palin can read, study, and understand them. The fact that she has Levin's "Tyranny and Liberty" is a start, but there's nothing like reading the voluminous writings of the Founders themselves (available online) for incorporating them into one's own vocabulary.
If she does that, all the Far Left proponents of the "counterfeit ideas" will not be able to stop her from having a positive impact on the future of America!
She must be able to delineate and clarify, as Reagan did, why "socialized" medicine, for instance, is in opposition to America's founding principles, explaining the perhaps "unintended consequences" of allowing any government in the world to have that much power over the lives and property of its citizens. There is liberty for individuals, and then there is tyranny over individuals.
But why did Obama keep talking about “death panels” today if she hasn’t influenced the discussion? She is the only person to use the term death panel.
And between the “death panel” note and the “use restraint” note, you conveniently left out the 2 posts quoting more than a dozen sources, from WaPo to National Review to the Cato Institute, backing up her first statement.
So she is doing more than making hyperbolic statements; she is backing them up with sources - though the media and many readers are too lazy to look up her sources.
Even worse, I am too preoccupied to look at Mrs Palin's Facebook page. My apologies for missing the 2 posts to which you refer.
Call me hopelessly old-fashioned, but, quite frankly, I don't regard posts on Facebook as coming from someone even remotely Presidential. It reminds me of the other Pubbie poster-blogger, MeggieMac.
I prefer reading serious op-eds, published by established venues such as the Wall Street Journal or other "dinasour media" publications.
Sure, when reading some really well written works, I wonder whether the person credited with the article actually wrote it, or whether a staff person penned the piece. At that point, I consider how well the candidate articulates their ideas verbally.
I do not doubt that Mrs. Palin is actually writing her own stuff on Facebook. And, I remain unimpressed.
Giggle.
Yes. I really do miss what I think I remember of the Reagan Administration.
I like Palin, but she has nothing to do with this.
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