Professor Jacobson: Nothing inconsistent about Palin's position

The Left thinks it has found something inconsistent in Sarah Palin's position on end of life counseling. John Podesta's Think Progress is a liberal public policy research and advocacy group which refuses to admit its leftist leanings, billing itself as "nonpartisan." When a group is disingenuous about its own nature, you can't expect it to be truthful about issues, either.

Such is the case with TP's claim that that Sarah Palin was for "death panels" before she was against them. Clinical law professor William A. Jacobson points out the fatal flaw in the TP argument (emphasis ours):

Sarah Palin was in favor of voluntary, private counseling so that people could put their end-of-life affairs in order, before she was against government bureaucrats getting involved in a mandatory process as part of health care restructuring cost savings efforts.

Nothing inconsistent about Palin's position. It's private versus public.

The Think Progress distortion, however, has been picked up and passed around the nutroots left like joints at a Cheech and Chong film festival. The distinction between something that is private and voluntary versus that which is government mandated is fundamental to understanding the concept of freedom.

We think the left recognizes the difference between Palin's positions on government-forced counseling and that which is free, private and voluntary. Liberals just can't make a solid argument against Sarah Palin on the health care issue, so they repeat the lie often, hoping that it will become generally accepted as the truth. They must figure that since it worked for Lenin, it should work for them. We think the days of the Big Liberal Lie are over. The American people are onto the Left, and the more they hear from them, the less they want to hear.

Update: Dan Riehl is on the same wavelength as Prof. Jacobson.

- JP