Palin: If "child in womb" isn't "valuable", then “perhaps the same mind-set applies to" elderly

By GottaLaff

The lying, self-absorbed little death panel-monger is at it again. She really should stick to posing for coloring books:

Speaking to a fund-raising banquet of Wisconsin Right to Life, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee asserted that if policy-makers don’t believe a child in the womb is valuable, then “perhaps the same mind-set applies to other persons.”

“What may they feel about an elderly person who doesn’t have a whole lot of productive years left,” Palin asked an audience of about 5,000 who paid $30 each to hear her speak in an airplane hangar-like exhibition hall at the Wisconsin state fairgrounds just outside of Milwaukee. “In order to save government money, government health care has to be rationed… [so] than this elderly person that perhaps could be seen as costing taxpayers to pay for a non-productive life? Do you think our elderly will be first in line for limited health care?

“And what about the child who perhaps isn’t deemed normal or perfect per someone’s subjective measure of their use or questionable purpose in the eyes of a panel of bureaucrats making our healthcare decisions for us,” she continued.

Palin did not expressly raise the prospect of government-mandated “death panels” to determine who lives or dies – the incendiary and inaccurate charge she made over the summer about Democratic health care plans—but repeatedly suggested that liberal social policies could lead to de facto euthanasia.

Speaking of euthanizing... How about ending her-- well, it's no longer a career... but whatever it is, it needs to be rationed and then death-paneled.

More here.

Scaremongering Works- Large Number Of Elderly Dems Don’t Support Reform

As always, Greg finds the nut in the new Gallup poll. This is very disconcerting.

Gallup has a new poll out showing what we already knew: Seniors are leaning against health care reform at a greater rate than other voters, perhaps because they already enjoy Medicare.

But I asked Gallup to send over some additional data breaking down seniors by party, and strikingly, the reform proposal is not supported by a surprisingly high amount of elderly Democrats.

Driving those numbers is the fact that large numbers of elderly Dems have reached no opinion on the reform plan, suggesting that all the scaremongering about how reform will destroy Medicare could be working by sowing confusion.

The numbers: Fourteen percent of Dems and Dem leaners over 65 oppose reform, and 29 percent are unsure, adding up to a total of 44% who don’t back reform, significantly higher than any other age group. Meanwhile, the 57% of elderly Dems who do back reform is significantly lower than any other group.