{"id":20464,"date":"2017-03-19T23:54:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T23:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20464"},"modified":"2017-03-19T23:54:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T23:54:34","slug":"palin-palin-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20464","title":{"rendered":"Palin? … Palin? … Palin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am risking getting some grief from readers of this blog by mentioning it … but where is Sarah Palin?<\/em><\/p>\n

We all remember the former half-term Alaska governor, the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee, the former Fox News “contributor,” the former reality TV celebrity.<\/p>\n

She was an ardent and vocal critic of the Affordable Care Act. You remember that, too?<\/p>\n

She was out there yapping about “death panels” and how bureaucrats would determine who gets to live and who must die.<\/p>\n

Palin also was an equally ardent supporter of Donald J. Trump’s candidacy for president and was thought to be a possible selection for veterans affairs secretary when the president was picking his Cabinet.<\/p>\n

With all the debate and discussion about “repealing and replacing” the ACA, I keep waiting for Palin to weigh in. I await her pearls of wisdom about the best way to replace the ACA.<\/p>\n

Where in the world is she? Has she retreated to Wasilla, Alaska, from where she emerged in 2008 to become U.S. Sen. John McCain’s running mate?<\/p>\n

I know what you’re thinking about yours truly: You’ve trashed Palin incessantly; you cannot contain yourself every single time she opens her mouth; you don’t take her seriously. Why do you want to hear from her?<\/p>\n

My answer? I don’t know. I just do.<\/p>\n

She did become a major political figure, if only for a brief period. Running for VP on a major-party ticket made her a big deal. The McCain-Palin ticket did garner more than 59 million votes in the 2008 election — which ain’t bad, man!<\/p>\n

Palin did become a darling of political conservatives, even as she went “rogue.” Her Fox colleagues welcomed her, as did those who watch the cable channel. I am going to presume, moreover, that she retains a considerable fan following among those very conservatives.<\/p>\n

I’m not one of her fans. However, she bitched up a storm about the ACA when it was being debated in Congress and then enacted into law.<\/p>\n

Here’s your chance, Sarah. Speak up! Tell us how\u00a0we should\u00a0provide a better health insurance plan for Americans.<\/p>\n\n

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I am risking getting some grief from readers of this blog by mentioning it … but where is Sarah Palin? We all remember the former half-term Alaska governor, the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee, the former Fox News “contributor,” the former reality TV celebrity. She was an ardent and vocal critic of the Affordable Care Act. … Continue reading Palin? … Palin? … Palin?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[131,6982,1424,1790,2546,4119],"class_list":["post-20464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-aca","tag-ahca","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-john-mccain","tag-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20466,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464\/revisions\/20466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}