My love/hate relationship with the extreme conservative right continues. Yes, I love how fascinatingly absurd they can be --beyond anything I could have imagined-- and I hate the fact that there are people in this country ignorant enough to take them seriously. Well, let's hope conservative Canadians are a smarter lot than our American conservative faction. 

Canadian comedian Mary Walsh of This Hour Has 22 Minutes fame, visited Palin on one of her book-signing tours. Disguised as her conservative character Marg Delahunty, Mary tried to ask Palin a question during the book signing:

"I just wanted to ask you if you have any words of encouragement for Canadian conservatives who have worked so hard to try to diminish the kind of socialized medicine we have up there."

Walsh was instantly surrounded by security and escorted out of the bookstore, even as Palin attempted to answer her question. Walsh's response?

"We're in a bookstore, at a public event, in a place one would think was a bastion of free speech. And no one was allowed to ask questions. What are they afraid of?"

Luckily, Walsh caught up with Palin outside (she had to hide in a loading dock) after the book-signing where Palin freely answered the question:

"Keep the faith because common sense conservatism can be plugged in there in Canada too. In fact, Canada needs to reform its health care system and let the private sector take over some of what the government has absorbed."

Yeah. Canada needs to stop offering affordable health care to its citizens and start making Health Care a for-profit industry. Cause that's gonna save lives, right? Because the American Health Care system is, like all things American, morally and economically advanced. 

So what do Canadians think about Sarah Palin's dream for their Health Care system? Well, according to The Raw Story: 

A recent study (PDF) found that 90 percent of Canadians support universal, single-payer health care. A poll taken last summer shows 82 percent of Canadians believe their health care system to be better than the US's, despite constant grumbling about waiting times for treatment of non-life-threatening conditions.