Vote For Critical Thinking

Here's an excerpt from a recent Palin rant on the campaign trail. A video of this was previously posted. Obviously, she and her advisers believe that there isn't a shred of critical thinking left in the country. That may be true for her audiences who boo on cue, but I don't think it's true for the majority of the people in this country who must be insulted that a politician would resort to this kind of fear tactic.

"See, under a big government, more tax agenda, what you thought was yours would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else. If you thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were, were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody. Obama, Barack Obama has an ideological commitment to higher taxes, and I say this based on his record... Higher taxes, more government, misusing the power to tax leads to government moving into the role of some believing that government then has to take care of us. And government kind of moving into the role as the other half of our family, making decisions for us. Now, they do this in other countries where the people are not free. Let us fight for what is right. John McCain and I, we will put our trust in you."

According to what she's saying, Obama has some kind of hidden agenda to turn the country toward socialism or communism. Actually, what she's describing here is closer to communism. Anyone who isn't going to let Palin hit their knee with her verbal hammer will quickly realize that Warren Buffet is one of Obama's key economic advisers. Why in the world would Warren Buffet sign on to a socialist or communist agenda?

Has everyone forgotten that one of her accomplishments that that McCain loves to talk about was increasing taxes on the big oil companies in Alaska? You know what she did with the revenue that was generated for Alaska? She gave everyone in the state $1,000. Sounds like socialism and "spreading the wealth around to me."

Then, there's this statement: "And government kind of moving into the role as the other half of our family, making decisions for us." She would have the government make the most personal decision a woman would ever have to make. She would have the government force a woman to have a child against her will even if that pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.

This devolution of our political dialogue has got to stop. Win one for critical thinking on November 4.