The Socialists are Coming! NY Times

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Editorial Observer
The Socialists Are Coming! The Socialists Are Coming!
By PHILIP M. BOFFEY
Published: September 28, 2007 - NY Times

The epithet of choice these days for Republicans who oppose any expansion of government’s role in health care programs is “socialized” medicine.

Rudy Giuliani has used the “s-word” to denounce legislation that would enlarge a children’s health insurance program and to besmirch Hillary Clinton’s health plan. Mitt Romney has added a xenophobic twist, calling the Clinton plan “European-style socialized medicine,” while ignoring its similarities to a much-touted health care reform he championed as governor of Massachusetts. Other conservative critics have wielded the “s-word” to deplore efforts to expand government health care programs or regulation over the private health care markets.

Our political discourse is so debased that the term is typically applied where it is least appropriate and never applied where it most fits the case.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/opinion/28fri4.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

[central scrutinizer]

1. don't we wish?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. And I, for one, welcome them.

[fasttense]

3. Well, maybe the socialists will offset the current fascist regime. n/t

[BridgeTheGap]

4. It's the "red menace" all over again!

McCarthy lives!

[DBoon]

5. because we all know how impoverished and opressed those Europeans are

I mean they had to extend the Berlin wall all the way to the Atlantic just to keep them from leaving for our freedom-loving shores!

[Fearless]

6. Mitt Romney was against MA healthcare reform... he wanted to veto it.