Saturday, August 8, 2009

Biden/Palin Health Care Debate!

I liked Jonathan Bernstein's suggestion of having Joe Biden debate Sarah Palin on health care, sort of like the Al Gore / Ross Perot debate of the NAFTA days. Occasionally the Obama administration has been successful in elevating their least popular critics, like Rush Limbaugh, and this would be a nice example of that. It'd also give us a nice platform for clearing up lots of misconceptions about what the bill does, because you know Sarah is going to bring a bunch of those to the table.

The worst thing about this is probably that you elevate Sarah Palin within the GOP, especially if health care reform fails, which is a problem for any plans to shape the GOP into something more reasonable. But I think we're far enough away from a reasonable Republican party that there's really no point in worrying about it. Maybe after they lose another presidential election or two we'll have something to work with.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"It'd also give us a nice platform for clearing up lots of misconceptions about what the bill does, because you know Sarah is going to bring a bunch of those to the table."

And how.

"The worst thing about this is probably that you elevate Sarah Palin within the GOP, especially if health care reform fails, which is a problem for any plans to shape the GOP into something more reasonable."

That wasn't in my plans.