Verus Guy has a point.

"We have met the enemy, and he is us". Poor old Lord Kadizzle has to admit, the worst enemy of the left at this time is the left. Sell outs like our Democratic Senator Kent Conrad have done more to torpedo us than the right. Any person willing to take the time and do some research on statistics can see our country spends about five percent more of our GDP for health care than any of the countries that out perform us. Do you ever hear this from the liberals pushing for health care reform? The people who have succeeded with health care are the countries that have cut out the insurance companies. Cleverly the Republicans have hijacked the word socialism. Republicans have made it into a bad thing. Now the left is afraid to mention the word and use it as an example of what works. Because the left will not simply dispel the lies of the right by pointing to data that shows what works, the right gets the upper hand with the simple minded. The right knew if they got abortion into the debate it would stir up the Hooples. Good go right. The biggest mistake of the left was pointed out by Kieth Olberman a while back. Had the liberals called health care reform medicare for everyone, it would have cast the thinking in a different light. Scaring people and misinforming them is so easy. Whipping stupid people into a frenzy is just a matter of putting some adds on TV that Democrats want to kill grandma. Once the right makes up a story, it needs to be shot up quickly. However, the left always misunderstands how stupid people really are. Who would believe you are going to kill grandma? Most people think this is ridiculous, but there is a hard core group of simple minded that believes it. These are the same people that believe Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.