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And Now a Few Things Sarah Palin Was Mocked Relentlessly For That She Turned Out to be Totally Right About

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1. Death Panels.

During the Health Care debate of 2009-10, Sarah Palin recognized that Obamacare could not possibly meet its promises of “more care, for more people, costing less money,” and that the inevitable result would be that Government bureaucrats would pick and choose which people would have how much access to which care; and the the sick and the elderly (at least those without political connections) would be hardest hit. The shorthand for this system she called “Death Panels.” (In the UK’s NHS, these are known as NICE.) And the Obama left mocked her relentlessly, and Politifact (who are also part of the Obama left) called her a liar.

She has since been vindicated. Left-wing economist Paul Krugman says death panels are needed to control health care costs.  And Democrats have admitted that IPAB, Obamacare’s cost-control body, functions essentially as a Death Panel.  And even journalists so in the tank for Obama they wear scuba gear to work admit she was right about death panels.

2. “Drill, Baby, Drill.”

In 2008, Sarah Palin had the audacity to suggest that developing domestic hydrocarbon reserves should be a cornerstone of economic policy and energy independence, she was mocked relentlessly by the know-it-alls on the left, who supported Obama’s vision of energy prices that must “necessarily skyrocket” in order to usher in an age of an economy powered by wind, solar power, and unicorn farts. (Note: The economy of the 18th Century was also wind and solar-powered.)

Now in 2014, we see that states that have adopted domestice energy development as policy, such as Texas and North Dakota, have booming economies while the rest of the country (except for the National Capital Region) stagnates and declines. And even Obama himself brags about how much energy is being produced, despite his best efforts to stop it.

3. Russia as a Geopolitical Adversary.

Sarah Palin was attacked in 2008 for suggesting that Russia would be encouraged to invade Ukraine if they perceived the USA as weak and ineffectual. The brilliant leftists at Foreign Policies mocked her scenario as “far-fetched.” And of course, we know how that one worked out.

The real kicker to this is that Sarah Palin was right about all of these things, and Obama and all his dear little sycophants were wrong.  That must drive them nuts, yes? To be consistently out-smarted by a woman they regard as so very, very stupid.

Comments

  1. “The real kicker to this is that Sarah Palin was right about all of these things, and Obama and all his dear little sycophants were wrong. That must drive them nuts, yes? To be consistently out-smarted by a woman they regard as so very, very stupid.”

    Wow, you are just too generous! I would suspect that they don’t even realize that they were out-smarted.

  2. If her track record is anything to go by, not only do small government conservatives and libertarians in the Republican Party need to split off and form their own party, but they eventually will. Let’s just hope is doesn’t happen as a result of a Hillary Clinton/Jeb Bush/Chris Cristie presidency.

  3. What makes the whole point of your post even sadder is that she was the “only” republican at the time of her statements that was saying these things, and that many republicans joined in with the liberals AND democrats in laughing at her and making fun of her comments. We can expect it from democrats, but members of your own party joining in was rather disgusting. She was the “lone wolf” at the time, and the only one with the stones to stand up and call out Obama.

  5. I’m surprised that Secretary of State John Kerry can find Ukraine. He obviously doesn’t know geography. He mocked Sarah Palin saying that she said she can see Russia from her kitchen window. It was Tina Fay who said it in her imperspnation of the Governor. Juneau, the capitol, is in the panhandle, and five hundred miles west is the the pennisula, which is what she probably could see with a telescope. As for her home in Waslilla is in the interior of the state just north of Achorage.