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Isn’t It Ironic, Don’t Cha Think?

Sarah Palin brought her “folksy” message on the road to Canada this weekend, speaking in Calgary on Saturday to a sold out audience of 1,200 people.  Her speech involved all the typical Republican talking points: limited government is good, Barack Obama is bad, and she even called global warming, “pie-in-the-sky, snake oil ideas.” One thing that she said did strike me as unusual and incredibly hypocritical though.  She talked about growing up in Alaska, and how her family would occasionally go to Canada for health care, “We used to hustle over the border for health care.”  Excuse me!  Sarah Palin used to go to Canada to receive that socialist, government run health care, which is the root of everything that is evil.  Could anything be more hypocritical?

Sarah Palin and the rest of her Republican cohorts scream and yell all day long on Fox News about how Obama is a socialist because he wants to provide health care to an additional 30 million Americans, and she admits to going to Canada to receive health care.  How can anyone take anything she says seriously?  As a matter of fact Sarah, it is ironic, because you argue against Canada’s single payer health care system constantly.  She says that Canada’s health care system is socialist, terrible, and doesn’t work, but it works well enough for her and her family to use it.  Sarah Palin has the intelligence to see that this is ironic, but not the intelligence to realize the hypocrisy of it.  What would Sarah Palin say if a Canadian, or god forbid a Mexican, “hustled over the border” to get health care in the United States.  I’m sure she would think that people from other countries coming here for health care is okay, right?

As if the statement about her coming to Canada for health care wasn’t bad enough, Mrs. Palin showed even more hypocrisy on her visit to Calgary.  A Canadian newspaper, the National Post, pointed out her hypocrisy perfectly, “She complained about the ‘establishment,’ this woman who once ran to be second-in-command of the largest establishment in the world; she mocked the press, speaking as a correspondent to America's biggest news network; she chastised critics who dwelt on her children's lives, after introducing to the audience her daughter, Piper, who spent the duration of the speech fidgeting near the stage. And the politician who championed the average working man and woman spent an hour before her appearance locked away in a private VIP reception posing for photos with guests who had paid hundreds of dollars for the privilege; after her speech, she was hustled by handlers out a back door. If these were contradictions, they were forgiven readily. As is surely the case with so many of her audiences, Ms. Palin's unpretentiousness and charm, and her deeply held conservatism, counted far more.”

How can any sane person possibly support this woman?

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