In words that the morons must be lapping up, Mike Huckabee states that Obamacare would have urged Ted Kennedy to hang up the boots on life far earlier.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
The 2008 Republican presidential candidate suggested during his radio show on Friday that, under President Obama's health care plan, Kennedy would have been told to "go home to take pain pills and die" during his last year of life.
"[I]t was President Obama himself who suggested that seniors who don't have as long to live might want to just consider taking a pain pill instead of getting an expensive operation to cure them," said Huckabee. "Yet when Sen. Kennedy was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at 77, did he give up on life and go home to take pain pills and die? Of course not. He freely did what most of us would do. He choose an expensive operation and painful follow up treatments. He saw his work as vitally important and so he fought for every minute he could stay on this earth doing it. He would be a very fortunate man if his heroic last few months were what future generations remember him most for."
Huckabee is an absolute disgrace. Only a coward would say exactly what he did. He uses Teddy's accomplishments to hide behind the fact that there are some mysterious panels which will urge old people to kill themselves. But naturally, Huckster doesn't want to politicize Teddy's death like those evil Democrats. On the subject he said:
"That not only defies good taste," said Huckabee, "it defies logic."
Fuck you hypocrite.
UPDATE: This shouldn't be a surprise. They've always been two-faced about such things.
Following civil rights leader Coretta Scott King's February 7 funeral, numerous media figures highlighted the purportedly "partisan" nature of the event, in some cases describing it as a "Democratic pep rally," a "Bush bashathon" and a "Democratic convention." The controversy stems primarily from tributes delivered by civil rights activist Rev. Joseph Lowery and former President Jimmy Carter, which included a reference to prewar intelligence failures in Iraq and what many interpreted as Carter's reference to President Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program. But many of those same media figures accusing speakers of politicizing the King funeral did not show the same aversion to the politicization of the 2004 death of a figure of a different political stripe: former President Ronald Reagan. Nor did they apparently think it worth noting that the Reagan funeral included no Democratic speakers, but a long roster of Republicans, including President Bush, who was running for re-election and was reportedly trying to attach himself to the Reagan legacy.
Radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that "the Democratic party now crashes funerals ... trying to pick up votes" and said, "I think Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King -- if there was to be any anger from above looking down at that -- it would be from them." [Fox News' Your World, 2/8/06]
http://mediamatters.org/...
Of course, those evil Democrats will use any chance they can to stomp on the Republicans. Never would those saintly Republicans do something like that...
KRISTOL: Who would Ronald Reagan vote for in this election, if we can be simple-minded about this?
JUAN WILLIAMS (National Public Radio senior correspondent and Fox News contributing political analyst): Who would he vote for?
KRISTOL: George W. Bush. That's who.
WILLIAMS: I don't think he would vote for someone who's involved in nation-building, put Americans at risk under questionable circumstances.
KRISTOL: Reagan would support Bush.
[...]
KRISTOL: The Bush doctrine is the son of the Reagan doctrine.
Washington Times White House Columnist
SAMMON: Also reminds me that, you know, we look at so many similarities with Bush. I don't hear anybody comparing Kerry to Reagan, but I hear a lot of people comparing George W. Bush to Reagan. And you wonder whether 30 or 40 years from now, a lot of the disputes about whether it was a good idea to democratize the Middle East will fall away, and it'll seem obvious that, of course, we should have done so.
What a bunch a tools. Thanks for the reclist.