Mitt Romney on the national debate over Obamacare

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

[narses]

Anyone drinking RomneyAid?

[Zevonismymuse]

Thanks for the post. I didn't realize MR had vetoed some parts of the health care bill and got overridden.

Mitt Romney is a good man whose positions and record have been distorted in a deliberate and vicious fashion on this site. The behavior of the Romney haters has damaged the credibility of FreeRepublic.

[FastCoyote]

What a sleazy SOB this Mitt is. If he could dance any faster, his shoes would light on fire.

[vbmoneyspender]

That’s not fair for you and me who have to pick up the bill and that is why, even though it is an abridgement of our freedoms, I think it is justified to require people to have health care insurance.

Based on that rationale, a gov't intrusion into literally every aspect of your life can be justified. Hall monitors for the food you eat. Hall monitors for how you spend your money. Hall monitors for your excercise habits. And hall monitors for your blood pressure when you have to read statements on internet sites that justify massive gov't expensions on the basis that implementing nationwide gov't mandates will make everyone better off.

[byteback]

Sure and the legislature had the votes to override the entire bill if they wanted. Right now the (R) in the state senate is 12.5% and in the house it’s 10%. Not quite sure what the rules are but I’m guessing there wasn’t a whole lot of bargaining power.

[Jmouse007]

Right: OBAMMA DEATH CARE originally brought to you by....

MIT ROMNEY, RINO in waiting... "When do I become "god" over my own planet?" Mit

[definitelynotaliberal]

Remove the incentive for allowing them to get care at ERs without health insurance, and they wouldn't spend the $300-$400 on the other stuff you mentioned in the first place.

I agree. How, though? How do you remove that incentive? I really don't want to care how people spend their money; but I get emotional about them billing their expenses to me.

[Antoninus]

Uggh. A butt-kissing session is what this is. Hewitt has been a shameless shill for Romney going on three years now. On the rare opportunity that I listen to him (usually hoping to hear Mark Steyn), and he announces, “In the next segment, I’ll be talking to Governor Mitt Romney....” *click* off he goes.

[ejonesie22]

You are right. It is time to set the record straight on Mitt.

Let me offer the first olive branch.

Mitt Romney is no where near as bad a socialist as Obama. He is also much more successful that the sitting president.

Mitt's health care planned passed...

Of course the year is not over, maybe Barrack can catch up...

[section9]

Mitt Romney....

VICHY!!!!

ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES:

Best,

Chris

[ejonesie22]

Perfect time and place to “try out” a government health care directive...

Brilliant!

[restornu]

“There’s some things about it I don’t like that actually I vetoed at the time that the bill was coming through. My veto was overridden.”

Not to mention the courts sticking their big noses into the mix. Mitt Romney is a good family man who does not deserve all the crap dumped on him here.

Ditto

It seems capitalism alive and the private Insurance companies was NOT throwing the under the bus as would happen in the Obama plan

[leilani]

The behavior of the Romney haters has damaged the credibility of FreeRepublic.

I wouldn't mind all the criticism of Romney here if it ever managed to scale above sixth grade level commentary. You see the same people posting the same simple-minded, kneejerk comments over & over & over again ad nauseum, thoughtlessly cut & pasted on every daggum thread without regard to subject, & the debate never really seems to be able to rise above that mind-numbingly monotonous tedium.

It's about as intellectually satisfying as watching lint accumulate in a clothes dryer filter.

[Antoninus]

Mitt Romney is a good man whose positions and record have been distorted in a deliberate and vicious fashion on this site. The behavior of the Romney haters has damaged the credibility of FreeRepublic.

Talk to the boss about it. JR has been very clear that he views Romney as a socialist tool. And I fully agree with him.

[ejonesie22]

BTW thanks for the ping.

Looks like "Team Romney” is trying a second string push again.

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

Wonder, not worry.(as if...)

[Washi]

***full disclosure***

I did not read the interview.

Hugh Hewitt is the Republican party’s biggest water carrier. If Mitt is the man the GOP wants in 2012, Hugh will play up all of his ideas as generally kiss his back-side, even if those ideas constitute Universal Health Care.

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.

[ejonesie22]

Yet no one has been able to successfully rebut the core arguments of the “sixth graders”....

Hum...

“Are you smarter than a fifth grader” has a whole new meaning...

[ejonesie22]

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

Hum...

[Antoninus]

Hugh Hewitt is the Republican party’s biggest water carrier.

Exactly. He is Mr. Politics-over-Principles.

[goat granny]

Hows that Romney care doing? Since his hair is the only thing he has going for him, he could shave his head and send a bag of hair for an interview...it would be just as honest and more intelligent....