Posted on 04/08/2010 8:07:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney has much explaining to do about his on-the-record support for liberal causes -- affirmative action and legalized abortion, just to name two -- if he hopes to fend off any conservative insurgency on his way to facing President Obama in the 2012 general election. From that standpoint, the darkest blemish on his record will no doubt be the healthcare reform bill he signed into law in 2006 while governor of Massachusetts, a program similar to Obamacare in that it levies tax penalties on those who willfully go uninsured, among other things
So how might Romney defend his record without coming across as a shameless political opportunist? Andrew Cline, editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader, offers a hint (via Politico's Ben Smith):
In a scheduled interview this morning, I asked Romney if Obamas individual mandate [was] unconstitutional in ordering individuals to purchase a commodity.
"I'm not enough of a judge," he said. "I think it's unconstitutional on the 10th Amendment front."
He said he could not characterize every provision of the bill as unconstitutional because Washington might well have the authority to do many things that are included in the 2,700-page bill. But taking as much control over healthcare as the bill does, particularly its mandate that individuals purchase health insurance, encroaches on powers reserved to the states, he said. As a result, the whole reform might collapse if challenged in court, and he thinks it should be challenged on 10th Amendment grounds.
Nice legal argument, if his only objective is to prove that a state governors power to mandate buying health insurance isnt explicitly barred by the federal Constitution.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at opinion.latimes.com ...
ANSWER: Hiding, sending out his manipulators,
selling his ghostwritten book,
helping Gore push the fraud of climate change,
and actually (true to form) attacking the "tea party".
Paul Thornton might want to waste his time on Romney, but I don’t.
Placemark
Slick Willard’s signing of RomneyCare established the blueprint for Obama’s healthcare. Thank Mitt Romney for OBamaCare.
DEATH PANELS OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN MASSACHUSETTS
State plan may place limits on patients hospital options( Mass. RomneyCare )
"Romney Visits Nebraska, Talks Health Care [where he defends Romneycare]
"Severe doc shortage seen hiking wait time
The shortage is getting more severe"
"Massachusetts: the laboratory for ObamaCare
"1,000 cancer patients 'refused treatment'"
"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"
"Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry"
Any provision of this bill is unconstitutionl since The Federal Government has absolutly no business sticking it's nose into it in the first place. End of story.
Mitt Romney the healthcare 10ther — will Republicans buy it?
NOPE
Romney’s last job was as a Fudge Packer?
As far as I’m concerned the darkest blemish on Romney is that he dropped out of the Primaries and supproted John McCain. In our caucus we voted for Romney over McCain. McCain threw the race. Romney could not have run a worse campaign than McCain. I think he sold us out to get McCain in the position to give us Obama.
Does that sound paranoid? OK! So be it. Mitt Romney played a role in getting Barack Obama into the White House. For that reason I wouldn’t pizz on him if he was on fire.
No. They are trying to set us up like they did with McCain by cramining this guy down our throat. A real conservative candidate is the best way to go.
Romney has tried to distance himself from the conservative movement while trying to attract it at the same time. He is as two-faced as they come.
Who might the ghostwriter be?
The passage of CommieCare spells the end of Romney as much as the killer paroled by Huckabee spelled Huckabee’s end
Bill Ayers?
That was Huckabee. And what is that guitar playing bullshit he does? We need some serious attention here.
Huckabee played for FR in DC 5 years ago.
He did a good job.
Romney, Newt and Giuliani can have decent jobs in Palin’s first administration — but they do not get to make policy. They have forfeited first tier leadership roles through their idiotic liberal views on important conservative issues.
Is that supposed to make me feel good about him? If it is I don't.
He may be a media star guitar player, but he's just as liberal as Romney.
Serious times call for serious leadership, and neither the media whores in the GOP or Obama himself are willing and capable of rising to the occasion when it comes to serious leadership.
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