Posted on 04/16/2010 1:34:02 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
An influential conservative think tank is firing a broadside at ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney (R), criticizing the potential WH'12 contender for a health care plan they say looks identical to Pres. Obama's.
"When you run down this list of elements in the Obama plan and the Romney plan, they are all identical," says Michael Cannon, the Cato Institute's director of Health Policy Studies, in a new video running on the group's website. "Both the Romney plan and the Obama plan are essentially a government takeover of the health care sector of the economy."
Romney's signature achievement during his tenure in the Bay State, CommonwealthCare, has now become a serious liability for a potential WH'12 bid. Romney's approach was controversial among think tank conservatives then; now, with the spotlight on health care, some are convinced it will be a deal-breaker.
"As Pres. Obama himself has pointed out, Romney is the guy who created the prototype for Obamacare," said Cato executive VP David Boaz. "How can he lead the charge against a health care plan that is modeled on his own?"
(Excerpt) Read more at hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com ...
One word... romneycommie.
LLS
Water is wet.
Sun Rises in East.
Obamacare is nationwide Romneycare
An influential conservative think tank is...
Looks like someone needs to inform those dimbulbs at National Journal
that Cato spouts libertarian propaganda, not conservative.
When libertarians periodically emerge from their-drug induced hazes and address economic issues, they can be brilliant. The libertarian think tank is exactly right about the disaster in Mass. RomneyCare = ObamaCare.
Nevertheless, Mitt continues to defend his health-care train-wreck while running for president as a conservative Republican.
As the libertarians well know, once you mandate insurance companies to take everyone, the inevitable result is a budget-blowing, red-tape-crippled socialized medicine. A government takeover will happen even if the program is designed by “efficient” Harvard-trained good-haired Republicans.
This is Romney’s trial by fire from his own side. If he can withstand the criticism and effectively counter it, then the democrats will be a cinch. If he has Palin on the ticket they will be the clean, upstanding, good looking “Man and wife” team to take America back from the brink of a shabby African banana republic socialism foisted on by a communist and his stupefied vision of superior Europe. Get ready for the race cards that Obama has not only in his hands, but stacked up his sleeves and in his shoes.
Cato is a libertarian think tank and not necessarily conservative!
In spite of all the “good things” that the Elder President Bush did, Conservatives turned their backs on him when he broke his “Read My Lips No New Taxes” pledge.
In spite of all of the “good things” that Romney has done, I have turned my back on Romney because he signed “RomneyCare”. Signing that bill made him a RINO.
Now if we could only get that libertarian “stink tank” known as the Cato Institute to disagree with Romney’s views on homosexuality and abortion (that “aint” gonna happen; after all, they are libertarians).
http://www.usasurvival.org/ck02.22.10.html
If he is even on the ticket, social conservatives will let the republicans lose another election.
libertarian propaganda??? I thought you were a libertarian.
Willie, are you a Romney supporter?
Or were you being sarcastic...
Perhaps. But they’re right on Romney. Even Romney said he’d be happy to accept credit for Obamacare.
libertarian propaganda??? I thought you were a libertarian.
Willie, are you a Romney supporter?
Or were you being sarcastic...
I'm a America First! Buchanan pitchforker...
a politically incorrect, mean-spirited, knuckle-dragging paleocon...
And proud of it!
Libertarians are a bunch of dope-smoking atheists...
and Romney is creepy. I don't trust him.
Did Romney actually write the Health Care for Mass or did the liberal congress and he signed on?
You know the answer to that.
Interestingly enough, the vast majority of people that I have talked to that call themselves libertarians DON'T partake or believe in the sins that you've just described. However, they have no problem with OTHERS doing it. Hence the following description of your "religion":
"Those who embrace libertarianism believe that there is no ultimate authority to which men and their civil society must answer other than themselves and the words of their own constitutions and laws. Men are "free," and there should be as few restrictions on "freedom" as possible."
The problem with libertarianism FBD is that their is no mention or acknowledgement of God in their beliefs (Misguided Christian libertarians are another story).
While the following words were written specifically to deal with homosexuality, it fits the libertarian social agenda as well:
"For Christians, it can’t be surprising that gay culture’s deformities and vices go so far beyond homosexuality itself. While we understand homosexuality to be innately wrong, we also understand that the bigger problem is people rejecting God’s standard, and thus God Himself. Once that happens, the door is wide open to any sort of behavior. As Dostoyevsky wrote, if there is no God, everything is permissible."
Be it libertarian social policies or their "free trade" policies; without God everything (and anything) is permissible.
I highly doubt you'll hear a Demcocrat says those word.
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