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  • JimmyGee

    Just as conservatives have always warned, if the GOP nominates Mitt Romney for president, the current president will try to use him as a scapegoat for Obamacare. Proof:
    ?We designed a program that actually previously had support of Republicans, including the person who may end up being the Republican standard bearer and is now pretending like he came up with something different,? the president said.
    The Massachusetts plan served as a model for the Affordable Care Act, signed two years ago Friday. Romney, the state?s former governor, has since said the legislation was the correct course for his state but not meant as a model for a national overhaul. But the plan has proved a focal point of criticism aimed at the GOP frontrunner.
    In Thursday?s interview, Obama said Republican opposition to the plan, including the Supreme Court challenge, is politically motivated.
    Maybe ?scapegoat? isn?t exactly the best word. In this interview, Obama was extolling the virtues of Obamacare and tying Romney to it, so maybe he was actually trying to share ?credit? for the health care overhaul.
    Either way, the only defense Romney has offered for Romneycare ? still ? is that he signed it into law at the state level. Ann Coulter has argued that that is an adequate defense.
    But if for no other reason than that Romneycare included an individual mandate, it?s problematic. Sure, a mandate at the state level is constitutional, but, in case you?ve forgotten, a federal mandate to buy insurance is not constitutional. Moreover, once upon a time, Romney explicitly expressed support for a national mandate.
    It?s been two years since the president signed Obamacare into law and, for two years, conservatives have known Romney would be in trouble for the way Romneycare connects him to the least-liked entitlement program in the nation?s history. Two years and I still don?t see how Romney gets around this issue.
    Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrohm says the campaign will clear its Etch a Sketch for the general election, but no magic and no messaging will erase Romneycare. It has been and will be his Achilles heel unless and until he completely disavows it.
    Phil Kerpen is hopeful that Romney can win Obama in the ?battle of the health care flip-floppers,? but I?m not so sure. Will undecideds who despise Obamacare look at Romney and see a clear difference? It?s the same question that?s plagued

    • http://www.thestandardcandle.com Justin Spagnolo

      *Ok, I just pulled that number out of the air… but you get the drift…

      good question on “undecideds” … we won’t know until the polling begins and the campaigns start the head to head matchups.

      We’ll have to wait and see when the nominee is nominated.

    • morrigan

      “Sure, a mandate at the state level is constitutional, but, in case you?ve forgotten, a federal mandate to buy insurance is not constitutional.”

      That is a correct description of the applicable constitutional law.

      >”once upon a time, Romney explicitly expressed support for a national mandate.”

      As did Newt Gingrich, the Heritage Foundation, and many other people and institutions on the right. Some of us can remember that we were not always at war with EastAsia.

  • civil truth

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    • civil truth

      So I will withdraw my comment. Thought the next time, you should put your comment material into the diary.

  • texastaxpayer

    What a joke this election is going to be…

    Romney: “This president has been a disaster for the American economy.”

    Obama: “We have created or saved three million jobs during my administration. As governor of Massachusetts you ranked 47th for economic growth during a period of strong economic growth for the country. I inherited a recession you created one.”

    Romney: “This presidents energy policies are creating hardships for American families as the price of gas skyrockets and leaves people with less and less of their hard earned dollars in their pockets.”

    Obama: “My energy policies are identical to the policies you advocated and enacted as governor of Massachusetts in everyway except one. Under my leadership America is producing more of its own oil and gas than at anytime in the last eight years. In fact I even used the same advisors to draft my legislation. Didn’t you advocate higher taxes on fossil fuels and strong incentives for green energy? ”

    Romney: “This president doesn’t understand the private economy and how it works. He doesn’t realise its high taxes and increased regulations that is stifling growth.”

    Obama: “I have created private sector growth in my first term and my policies are working. As governor of Massachusetts you raised taxes and fees nearly a billion dollars annually on your citizens, I have cut taxes. As governor of Massachusetts your policies led to tens of thousands of jobs lost. I have created and saved millions.”

    Ect… Ect… Ect…

    • rednation

      Romney is very easy for Obama to beat, the easiest of the remaining candidates.

      He has no contrast ability.

      Worse, he’s s liberal mole.

      We are going down like 350 EV in the fall, at least.

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