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Susan Grigsby, who lost her brother, Steve, to cancer: What really horrified me about the debate was not the poorly phrased question, it wasn’t Dr. Paul’s answer, and it wasn’t even the scream after Wolf Blitzer asked, ‘Would you let him die,’ and somebody in the audience yelled ‘Yeah!’ That wasn’t as horrifying as was the silence from the stage, from these men and women who are running for office, not a word. Nothing.

This is the reality of the right wing libertarian attitude toward the sick. It is vile. It is inhumane. It is unworthy of Americans.

The question posed by Susan Grigsby needs to be asked of every Republican candidate. "Do you, as a candidate for President, really believe that if an American cannot get, or does not get insurance, that they should be treated the way Steve was?"

When they don’t answer it it needs to be asked again. And again. And again. They cannot be allowed to evade it. They cannot be allowed to look the other way.

Republicans are already trying. Here’s Mitch McConnell when confronted with that clip from the debate and asked if it troubled him:

(Brief chuckle) Look, we have a lot of people running for president, there are going to be a lot of debates, a lot of things said, a lot of audience reactions, I don’t have a particular reaction to what’s going on in the Republican campaign for president right now.

The silence that horrified Susan Grigsby continues.

Prominent Republicans are afraid of coming out in favor of saving the lives of the sick and uninsured.

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Her brother's cancer might very well have been more treatable if he'd been able to get to a doctor who diagnosed it in time. That's really what she's mad about. -- Then if her beef is with the doctors and NOT the government, she shouldn't be using her brother's illness and death as political fodder.

And I see you failed to address my point that if the opinions of a few represented the many (as you keep arguing they do), the Left would be nothing but people issuing death threats to the Bush family.

Stay classy, PAFT!

Her beef -- as she made clear -- is with a healthcare system that offers few alternatives to people in her brother's position, and with politicians like Ron Paul who seem determined to keep it that way.

I have not heard choruses of left-wing crazies yelling "kill the bankers" at important Democratic candidate debates. Have you?

I have not heard choruses of left-wing crazies yelling "kill the bankers" at important Democratic candidate debates. Have you? -- Look up the Wall St. protests perpetrated by Code Pink and see what you find.

Yes, I have been following those Wall Street protests. What has Code Pink been interjecting into democratic debates there and and what prominent Democrats have refrained from commenting? Who has Code Pink been yelling about killing?

"Do You, as a Candidate for President, Really Believe..."

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