Mitt Romney on the national debate over Obamacare

Townhall.com ^ | 08-10-09 | Hugh Huewitt

[Antoninus]

You note that “Team Romney” folks once again “talk” about the ‘vicious distortion” but never really define or dispute its contents...

That's because there's plenty of video tape of their guy out there that will directly contradict anything they say in Romney's defense.

The man is simply not even in the same time zone as conservatism.

[jla]

To post 53 - Substitute ‘Palin’ for ‘Romney’ and your post is very true and accurate.

[EternalVigilance]

Romney's main problem with ObamaCare is his concern that Obama is moving too fast, instead of doing what he would do now, he says, which is to force us into socialism incrementally.

The proof is in a recent interview Romney did with Katie Connolly of NewsWeak:

"What would you do differently if you were to do it today? There's a whole series of things I'd do differently. And yet, there seems to be such a rush to act. I understand that President Obama wants to get this done in his first term, but more important than getting it done in the first year is getting it done right, before he is out of office. There is time here to get it done right."

Of course, there was no such talk when he was Governor of Massachusetts. He got together with Teddy Kennedy and made it happen poste haste.

Romney is the most accomplished socialist in the country, actually. No one in the history of this republic ever pushed through more of the radical Left's agenda in four short years than Mitt Romney.

From the same interview:

"After we crafted the architecture of our plan, the first person I went to was Ted Kennedy. He and I met numerous times and what we fashioned was not perfect in either one of our eyes, but we worked together, because only together could we know that we would have the support of all the parties necessary to make it work."

- Mitt Romney

[EternalVigilance]

Makes me wonder what the first string is upto...

Busy with the leveraged buyout of the formerly grand OLD party and its satellite supposedly "conservative" organizations.

First things first.

[Theophilus]

RomneyCare.....all I need to know.

Rino manure probably tastes even worse than Donkey manure but it's all manure.

[NoRedTape]

"Anyone drinking RomneyAid?"

He ain't serving-up ANYTHING that anyone I've met would want. He's a flip-flopper suede-shoe mormon salesman. Anyone with any brains can see that.

Simple.

Best that he is no where near the 2012 race.

Jindal/Palin

[leilani]

Actually, I agree with that. I'm a fan of both of Romney & Palin.

I find it astonishing that there are members of this forum who never have an unkind word to say about Barack Obama or Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi & choose instead to spend all their waking moments at FR slamming decent Republicans in the most ridiculously juvenile ways.

I find that quite odd, frankly.

[EternalVigilance]

[GoreNoMore]

Link to proposed bill

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3200ih.txt.pdf

[leilani]

I do not waste my time reading anything that has to do with Hugh Hewitt, because I know it will always be the party line

Um, did you click on this thread by mistake then?

[FTJM]

Let people own their own policies, give tax incentives for coverage and corporate contributions, create medical savings accounts, make polices/coverage portable, allow interstate competition, give people the freedom to associate, institute litigation reform, reform medicare.....then and only then discuss the uninsured and possible solutions to provide coverage or care.

This is what Romney should be saying, along with admitting the mistakes made by the Mass plan.

[ansel12]

If you want read a sixth grade sounding statement from a liberal, here is one.

“These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense, they are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”

[sockmonkey]

Imagine someone is walking on the side of the road and is shot by a drive by shooter and will die if not immediately taken to the hospital. Does society have a moral obligation to provide medical care to this person even if the person has no insurance and can’t pay?

I think in Texas, there is a state victim's compensation fund that would pay the cost of the care. They also reimburse victims for certain other expenses. The money for this fund comes from convicted criminals.

http://www.oag.state.tx.us/victims/expenses.shtml

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>I find it astonishing that there are members of this forum who never have an unkind word to say about Barack Obama or Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi & choose instead to spend all their waking moments at FR slamming decent Republicans in the most ridiculously juvenile ways.

That is nonsense.

What's worse then a liberal Democrat? A liberal Republican attempting to lie, deceive and hoodwink people into believing he's become a die-hard conservative. Romney has spent a lifetime supporting liberal issues and liberal causes. While promoting himself through political expediency, not principled conservatism.

[EternalVigilance]

I always put it this way: Which is more dangerous to the sheep: A wolf in sheep’s clothing or a wolf in wolve’s clothing?

The answer, of course, is obvious.

[ansel12]

This is a conservative site, a sleazy anti-Reagan guy like Mitt Romney is naturally going to be under fire here, remember we are trying to get a conservative into the White House.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Barney Frank saw more action in the basement of his house than the progeny of Slick Willard. The umpteenth generation of visceral aversion to military service in that family.

[fieldmarshaldj]

You a funny troll.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>>... even though it is an abridgement of our freedoms, I think it is justified to require people to have health care insurance.

"A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering." ~~~ Thomas Jefferson, 1816

[SoConPubbie]

You are required by law to purchase insurance when you drive a car; the same rationale for requiring people to purchase medical insurance for themselves and their children applies here: it is to protect the rest of us responsible people from the 'soft tyranny' over our bank accounts by people who buy big screen TV's & take ski vacations instead of purchasing plans for themselves & their kids. They end up taking their kids to the emergency room for colds, or undergoing emergency surgery after a car wreck - and the rest of us get stuck with the tab in higher premiums!

You say these a-holes should be able to continue to buy their luxuries instead of insurance & gouge the rest of us out of some absurdly construed notion of freedom? Sorry, freeloaders don't have the 'freedom' to rob me. Your bloated sense of entitlement (& quite a liberal one it is, in fact) stops when you hurt me and deprive me of my hard-earned money through your irresponsibility.

Address the real problem.

Those who choose not to get insurance have to pay cash, period!

If it means giving up your house, your 2nd care, whatever.

Don't pass off a tyrannical solution as the right solution if your are not willing to deal with what caused your fake problem.