re: #109 sattv4u2

I think Palin ‘lied” about death panels, but I have no proof that she didn’t beleive there would be, SO ,,, was she intentionally trying to decieve? By your own standard, if she BELEIVES there would be death panels, then no lie!

Sometimes I just can’t believe the rationalizations people come up with to make excuses for Sarah Palin.

She absolutely knew she was not telling the truth. The statement is utterly absurd on its face, and no sane person could possibly have believed the US government was going to set up “death panels.”

It was pure fear-mongering BS, pandering to the most extreme element of the right wing base — and Palin used her own child to do it, in one of the most blatantly cynical political maneuvers I’ve ever seen.