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Sometimes the best way to tell a story is just to tell it.  I’ll let Juanita do that.

A little boy who used to live in my house came home from second grade one day and announced, “I hate girls.”

“Well,” I replied, “that unfortunate because one day you might need to marry one.”

The little boy pondered for a moment and then looked at me with rolling eyes, “Duh,” he began, “You marry women.  I like women.  It’s girls that I hate.”

That has stayed with me because I have come to agree with him.  The second grade girls were silly and giggly and picked on everybody.

Sadly, some of them never became women.  They stayed girls all their lives.

And when they got older, they became Republicans and ran for office.

It’s girls that I don’t like.

Sarah Palin is not a woman.  She’s still a girl.  Michelle Bachmann, Christine O’Donnell — all girls, not grown up women.

I have another example for you today.  Rebecca Kleefisch is running for lieutenant governor in Wisconsin.  She ran a tv ad about how wonderful her heath care has been for her cancer treatments but forgot to mention one small fact – her heath care is paid for by the government she hates.

In the ad, which began airing statewide Tuesday, Kleefisch doesn’t mention that her cancer treatments were paid for through the state-subsidized health insurance plan of her husband, state Rep. Joel Kleefisch, a Republican from Oconomowoc.

But Kleefisch does say that “thanks to the highest quality health care system in the world, I won my battle with cancer.”

Kleefisch pays $85 per month for her health insurance with the rest of the cost, $1,722, paid by the state.

So, people who cannot afford $1,802 a month for heath insurance do not get “the highest quality heath care in the world.”    She is denying heath care to the very people who are paying for hers.

What a girl!