Larry Elder's Palin Prescription

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In a Townhall.com op-ed, Larry Elder relates a discussion he had with his father's doctor, who said he preferred President Obama to Sarah Palin. We pick up the conversation after Elder had debunked the doctor's arguments against Gov. Palin's intelligence and judgment:

"OK, then this is really about ideology."

"Well --" he laughed.

"Were you OK with bailing out all those banks?"

"No, but Bush did it, too."

"He shouldn't have, but how we got there is about government butting into the housing business. What about bailing out GM?"

"No."

"Do you think the stimulus package truly 'created or saved' a bunch of jobs?"

"No."

"Are you OK with ObamaCare?"

Dad's doctor suddenly turned into Mr. Hyde. He teed off on the government dictating how he should practice medicine. He predicted that costs would go up, not down. He predicted that quality would go down, not up. He talked about the importance of the profit incentive.

"Sarah Palin feels the same way you do."

Read Larry Elder's Townhall.com column unabridged here.

- JP