Mitt Romney's State Sovereignty Argument Fails To Lift Health Care 'Boat Anchor' From Around His Nec

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- The 10th amendment is a cause celebre among the Tea Party. So Mitt Romney’s argument that uses state sovereignty to defend his health care mandate in Massachusetts should be taking off with conservatives, right?

Wrong.

The former governor of the Bay State hopes to move past RomneyCare by delivering a major speech Thursday that addresses about how he would change ObamaCare at the federal level. But many conservatives still don’t think he’s sufficiently dealt with questions about his own record.

“The poor guy got told that conservatives buy this,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, in an interview. “Well, no, they don’t.”

Norquist was referring to research from the conservative Heritage Foundation that was used to bolster Romney’s 2006 signing of a universal health care bill -- a bill that is now, as Norquist put it, a “boat anchor” around Romney’s neck.

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Yep, it is lethal when a Republican does something for his constituents rather than the corporations.

should be fun to watch

:D

:popcorn: ready to go.

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Romney doesn't bother me nearly as much as a lot of the others (don't get me wrong, I'm still not voting for his smary ass), my opinion of him is that no one ever had enough respect for him to teach him HOW to think, (rather, he got taught WHAT to think) and he covers it with a kind of generic niceness. But purely as an animal of politics, the guy passed mostly-universal healthcare as a GOP Governer of a very blue state when the Federal Govt. couldn't seem to find its ass with both hands (or OBL, for that matter=)) He CAN actually make one hell of an argument for states rights as a useful avenue for getting done things that need doing. (more Dems. could use this argument in the face of a deadlocked and obstructonist Senate, but thats just my 2 cents).
The problem is, that 'baggers and their Corporate Masters don't really CARE about a good argument, unless it works in THEIR FAVOR, and this time, it doesn't, and for this, Romney will be whipped in the Public Square. The only way he can turn it around is to say that a good idea is a good idea even IF sometimes it comes from the other side, and it got done, and you don't live in Mass. ANYWAY, so FUCK you. He has to claim it, really CLAIM it as his own, but for that to happen, he needs to be lot more of a ruthless hard-ass than he knows how to be. Newt will eat his heart, and Newt knows this, and that will be that. So yeah, I think some sympathy is in order for the guy, not because He did some good for the people he was kinda supposed to be doing good for, but because now he has to either run from that Good, or possess the political skills to knife those who would call that good, Evil.
In other words, he's Pretty Much Fucked.