Sarah Palin, can you ever, ever forgive me?

Randi Kreiss

Anyone can have a change of heart and mind. Just after the health care reform bill passed last week, I realized the critics were right: Why should we provide insurance for 30 million uninsured Americans?

Why can’t they do what the rest of us do and work hard, save, and put aside enough to purchase insurance for themselves? Or else go to emergency rooms. That’s been working pretty well so far. I mean, if it ain’t broke, let’s not “fix” it at a cost of billions of dollars.

Every single one of the Republicans who voted against the bill — and that would be all of the Republicans in the House — stood firm and refused to cave in to arguments about “moral imperatives” and “doing the right thing.” Good show.

While President Obama said in speeches across the nation, “Yes we can!” Republican John Boehner stood on the floor of the House and shouted back, “No you can’t!” That’s the can-do spirit we need in government.

Furthermore, I am so impressed with ex-governor Sarah Palin’s recent comments urging citizens to “target” those representatives who voted for health care. She knows they weren’t voting their consciences or trying to help those who most need help in our society. She knows they were just falling in step with the party line, unlike her fellow Republicans, each of whom cast a vote of personal conscience.

All the fuss about her inciting violence against Democrats seeking office in 2012 is nonsense. I agree with John McCain. Just because she posted a list of “targeted” Democrats with targets over their districts, what does that have to do with violence?

Senator McCain, who has been such a good loser — supportive and conciliatory toward the new administration — has struck just the right notes of bipartisan cooperation. What I really love about the man is that he refuses to pander to his constituents even though he’s up for re-election.