Mitt, RomneyCare, and Teddy K

American Thinker ^ | December 22, 2011 | Steve McCann

[SoConPubbie]

In 1994 Mitt Romney ran for the U.S. Senate. His opponent: Ted Kennedy. During that campaign Romney was critical of the liberalism of his opponent even coining s term "Kennedy Country" as means of describing the devastation Kennedy's liberal social policies had wrought on the poor neighborhoods in Massachusetts.

He lost that election but won his next attempt at state wide office as Governor in 2002. He ran on the pledge that he would not saddle the people of the state with socialist tax-and-spend or an expansion of liberal social policies.

However soon after he was elected Romney began the drumbeat for socialized medicine. Three years later he signed RomneyCare into law. The voters of Massachusetts did not vote for RomneyCare as by his own admission he did not plan his socialized medicine scheme until after the 2002 election. Romney foisted it upon the citizenry without warning and without any prodding from his Democratic rivals.

However, guess who was in the forefront of lobbying the state legislature to get Romney's bill passed? Yes, Ted Kennedy. The same Senator who pushed for socialized medicine for many decades. This became a Romney-Kennedy production.

Further Mitt Romney stood proudly with Kennedy while he signed RomneyCare into law. The Ted Kennedy love fest video from the 2006 bill signing ceremony for the health care law:

Mitt Romney still defends what has become a financial and social debacle in Massachusetts while claiming he would repeal ObamaCare. However the Republican primary voters are being told by the Republican establishment and many "conservative" pundits that he is the most electable and is in his heart a real conservative.

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792

[Mikey_1962]

December 2011? Really?

[SoConPubbie]

December 2011? Really?

Yup!

I know the shelf-life of a Romney issue position is only 6 months, but still, they are part of his record.

I know you, as a Romney supporter, would rather keep all this under wraps, but this isn't a GOP site, it is the Premier Conservative site on the web.

We don't support lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberals on this site.

[Venturer]

I would rather have my teeth drilled into by a crazed maniac with an electric drill than vote for Romney, but damn it there is no other choice if he is nominated.

It is that or watch Obama and the Democrat party lead us into bankruptcy and loss of our country.

What a nasty situation the Republican RINO’s have led us into.

[jonno]

...without any prodding from his Democratic rivals.

Is this really a true statement? If not, why post any article containing half-truths - or outright lies?

If you have a strong case, why rely on embellishment?

from the comments:
There are a couple of factual errors in this article which, when corrected, gives an entirely different spin. The corrections are:

There was absolutely prodding from Democratic Rivals. On the same day that Romney introduced his plan, the Democratic president of the senate introduced a plan. It certainly was not chance that they were introduced the same day. see http://www.boston.com/yourlife... The bill which was eventually passed by the legislature was significantly modified from the bill which Romney proposed . Most who have researched this issue are aware that the conservative Heritage Foundation was the adviser to Romney and his legislation. To imply that it originated from Kennedy Liberalism is a gross distortion.

I found this quote from the news report cited in point 1 in praise of Romney's original proposal to be a far cry from Kennedy liberalism, Steve McCann implies in this article... "Bill Vernon of the National Federation of Independent Business said, ''Trusting the market to provide flexibility and choice of products is critical to solving the healthcare crisis in our state."

[Mikey_1962]

I know you as a Romney supporter

you know nothing about me save my profile. Someone who operates in such ignorance is not worth my time. Accepting your ignorance would do you well. Knowing what you do not know is liberating.