Silly leftists, "mandation" is indeed a real word

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Some leftist bloggers decided they would have themselves a field day over Sarah Palin's use of the term "mandation"...

Oliver Willis, who pounces on any opportunity he sees to bash Gov. Palin (usually without bothering to engage his brain first), put his idiotarianism (a Web word) on display for all to see:

"America’s Idiot and Fox News front woman Sarah Palin has made up a new word (at least not in our Jesus hating dictionaries) to attack President Obama." 

"Plus, isn’t mandation something that eventually leads to gay marriage?"

Oh, but Jeanne Devon at Palin'-hatin' Mudflatulence (My name for Devon's hate blog) managed to go Ollie one better. When presented with evidence that "mandation" is indeed a word, Devon dismissed it because the source offered was Wiki.answers, chortling:

"Anyone familiar with dictionaries, and wikis will know immediately why I got such a good chuckle over this one."

While Devon was chuckling, people who are familiar with real research (i.e., not limiting themselves to sources intended for dummies such as dictionary.com) were searching places where Sarah Palin, in her own research, would have been likely to find the word -- in medical and public health journals. They were not surprised to see "mandation" is used, and not uncommonly so, in the literature...

Exhibit A:

The Mandation of Insurance Coverage for In Vitro Fertilization
Author: Joan Retsinas a Affiliation: Executive Director, Rhode Island Health Policy & Planning Consortium, Providence, RI, 02906,

DOI: 10.1300/J045v03n02_03
Published in: Journal of Health & Social Policy, Volume 3, Issue 2 February 1992, pages 33 - 48
Formats available: PDF (English)
Now published as: Social Work in Public Health

Exhibit B:

Compens Benefits Rev. 1989 Nov-Dec;21(6):17-23.
Healthcare for the uninsured: is mandation the answer?

Beadle CE.

The 37 million people in the United States who have no healthcare insurance pose a major social problem, but is legislation that requires employers to provide a minimum amount of healthcare coverage for employees the solution?

PMID: 10296100 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Clearly as we had figured, Gov. Palin, in her research for her Facebook op-eds on ObamaCare, also found the term "mandation" used in the journals, and employed it herself. So perhaps Devon should go to her font-of-all-knowledge site, dictionary.com, and look up the word "hubris." 

The leftists' latest attempt to paint Sarah Palin as "stupid" backfired on them because of their ignorance (yet again), and they just proved that she is a heck of lot smarter than they are. It's the Wyle E. Coyote Effect -- they are such "geniuses"...

But the most delicious thing about it all is that the libs will keep on making fools of themselves in this manner. Leftists never learn from their mistakes because they lack the intellectual honesty to admit that they made them in the first place.

h/t Rich Crowther

- JP