What the f**k is wrong at NRO?

I'm one of the folks who subscribe to National Review on dead tree, but I'm really, really thinking about canceling my subscription at this point. Because at this time, most of what I see coming out of National Review is elitists who have fallen into the same attitude that the Democrat American Communist Party has - that Sarah Palin is somehow less of a conservative, or is somehow WRONG, because she's not some rich, snobbish, inside the beltway asshole. Case in point - NRO's editorial on Palin's "Death Panels" remark.

To conclude from these possibilities to the accusation that President Obama’s favored legislation will lead to “death panels” deciding whose life has sufficient value to be saved — let alone that Obama desires this outcome — is to leap across a logical canyon. It may well be that in a society as litigious as ours, government will err on the side of spending more rather than treating less. But that does not mean that there is nothing to worry about. Our response to Sarah Palin’s fans and her critics is to paraphrase Peter Viereck: We should be against hysteria — including hysteria about hysteria.

Let me ask a question - just why the hell do you think the "Death Panel" terminology was removed from the bill? Was it because the snobs at NRO talked Congress out of it? No, it was because Sarah Palin connected with the conservatives out there. Because she took a concept and boiled it down to it's base level, and the real conservatives took that and ran with it. Did I really think that there would be panels of people going thumbs up or thumbs down on whether granny got to live? No. But I do believe that had that language on "end of life" counseling remained in that bill, a government bean-counter would be deciding just how much the government would spend to keep granny alive. And in the end, it amounts to the same thing - care being withheld.

NRO needs to either pull their heads out of their collective ass, or they need to get the hell out of the way.