Alaskan dingbat Sarah Palin proudly quoted Ronald Reagan last night, you betcha. So what was that weird quote about, anyway? It's from thisLP propaganda record, part of a "campaign organized by the American Medical Association to block the passage of Medicare."

Here's what Palin quoted:

Ha ha, she wants to end Medicare, to stop the communists, and make old people die. She hates old people.

Palin: Medicare Leads to Totalitarianism [Yglesias]

Raising the white flag of surrender — to Medicare [Paul Krugman]

Ronald Reagan and Medicare [Larry Dewitt]