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

[paft.livejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

You say that using all resources available to someone is pulling oneself up by one's bootstrap out of one side of your mouth and then deny that poverty in the United States exists with the other while claiming that only bums are on welfare. One of those cannot be reconciled with the other.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Adjectives are important, you can't just ignore them. Try reading it again.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

The whole idea of pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps never applies to people who are on welfare and in such statements the obvious indication is that people are on welfare by choice. Thus the mere concept that using government resources, particularly where those are the only ones available, is not pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps indicates that government is a force of evil and thus that small government arguments are magical thinking.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

That's what you're saying, not what I'm saying.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

You've yet to say anything as it is.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

If you say so.