Finally! A first comment for me! … which explains why I didn’t waste time elaborating.

Palin strikes me as someone too dense to understand what’s in the bill and to argue against the gist of the proposed measures on their economic merits, because she lacks competence in basic economic principles, and couldn’t even be bothered to read the contents (not that I blame her on that point, given the excruciating length and the many competing drafts floating around Capitol Hill). So what does she do? Of course, she resorts to what she is best at:

Stirring the irrational passions of the so-con base. She welcomes gratuitous controversy with these asinine remarks, and I’ll tell you why: I am tooth and nail against ObamaCare but favor the availability of euthanasia, and just like me, there is a considerable chunk of the electorate that opposes this bill out of economic and pragmatic considerations and couldn’t care less about whether abortion is funded or euthenasia covered. She doesn’t offer anything to us.

All she does is provide a red herring for derailing the subject at hand from one on the merits of socialized health-care versus market-based initiatives into one about euthanasia. How stupid is that? How unhelpful in that to opponents of ObamaCare?