I'm sure he's VERY proud of it.
Posted on 11/17/2011 3:56:42 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Don’t expect Mitt Romney to backtrack on his Massachusetts health-care plan at any point this election cycle.
“I am sure there are many people who have calculated, and perhaps correctly, that the healthcare plan I put in place in Massachusetts is not good for me politically, and if I want to encourage my political future, I should say it was a mistake and walk away from it,” Romney told Fox Business Network host Neil Cavuto in an interview set to air later tonight.
“You have seen a lot of candidates look at their biggest vulnerability, call it a mistake, and ask for forgiveness,” Romney continued. “In my case that wouldn’t be honest.”
He affirmed that he believes the health-care program was the “right thing” for Massachusetts then, although he conceded that it hasn’t “worked perfectly.”
“If it hurts me politically, it’s a consequence of the truth,” Romney added. “I am not going to walk away from that. It’s right for states to come up with their own solutions. I doubt other people are going try and follow the one we put together. Maybe learn from our experience. Maybe come up with something better. But the wrong course is to have the federal government impose its will on the entire nation.”
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A Republican socialist in the White House is much more dangerous than a Democratic one.
I am against government run healthcare (and outlawing of alternatives) at any level. It is pure evil.
I'm sure he's VERY proud of it.
Keep telling yourself that when they come to take your guns, attack your churches, confiscate your your income, and celebrate Iranian nukes and the mullahs attacking Israel.
Or will it expose more faux conservatives here?
I have to agree. Romney morphs to follow the circumstances around him; we need someone who can mold the circumstances around hm/her.
He finally picks an issue to not flip-flop on, and it’s this? Just confirms that Mr. RINO-care has no business being president.
What do they ask on a 5-page form? Sounds like an invasion of medical privacy.
My position on the whole freakin’ thing has been a Constitutional argument based on Amendment 10. Nowhere in the Constitution does the federal government have a right to inflict a healthcare law on every citizen.
BUT: the rights not given to the feds are reserved for the “states and the people”. What that means, from my studies, is that the various states can be laboratories for their own populations. If the people of a state want to do something (school vouchers, healthcare, drinking ages, etc.), then they ought to be free to do so.
Long before this primary season started, I was keen on the laboratory idea. Other states can learn from one state’s example and adapt for their own population. The “one size fits all” of a federal plan, however well-meaning, is a recipe for disaster.
NOW: people can say, “States don’t have the right to do that either.” To which I would say, “That is a policy decision for the people (see the 10th amendment again!) to make!”
Rick Perry made much of the same “states right” argument when it came to the tuition for illegals. That was reduced tuition for STATE SCHOOLS. A state issue.
I dunno. I know Romney is hated here. I don’t hate him. Don’t know if I’ll VOTE for him in the primary, but I just don’t see the demon behind the $100 haircut.
I agree. Is this what the Republican party has come to? Because there's an "R" next to his name, socialized medicine is suddenly okay? Free healthcare for illegals is okay? Government funded abortions is okay? RomneyCare does all of those things. This is downright shameful. I'm not defending this clown if he's the nominee and I dare anyone here to defend all of this without looking like a liberal fool.
Exactly. It’s not okay just because its a Republican or just because its at the state level.
I wont say I’ll never vote for Romney. I’ll say that I will, in any election, vote for the MOST conservative candidate that has a legit chance to win.
In the Primary round, that is clearly not Romney. Its looking like its going to be Newt. BUT, if my choice ultimately becomes Romney versus Obama, then Romney qualifies. He’s no conservative, but he’s not a Marxist, and I dont think he’s anti-American, as I do feel about Obama.
Heh, so cute, he sez that as if we were giving him a choice.
he’ll support it until asked in the next debate and then he’ll try to explain away his support for the mandate.
last week he was denying his former staff helped draft obamacare and that massachusetts isn’t a model for obamacare
give him time
he’ll torture the explanation again before 24 hours tick off the clock.
If Romney is the best the GOP can muster, this party and the Republic is doomed.
Deplorably ironic that on a rare occasion when Romney sticks to his position, it’s an awful one.
I say his answer is acceptable, Healthcare is a matter of individual rights including but not limited to the right to delegate that power to their State Goverment.
Let Fools find out first hand that hell is what you do to each other(thou the State perhaps). There must be a place in America where leftist can try their foolish ideology and see first hand that it is inherently destructive & repressive.
I would not hold Romneycare against Romney, so long as Romney maintains that this is a State rights issue, and keeps non-Massachusetts money from interfering their “experiment”.
To that end I am prepared to support Romney for president, although he is not my first choice among those running. I will not blackball him if he recognizes the inherit differences in policy between our State and Federal governments.
Not the same critter by a long shot. I’m not saying Romney would necessarily be any good as president, but I have a hard time believing he could be as damaging as Hussein has been.
“Why go Romney when we already have 0bama in place?”
Which is something Ann Coulter doesn’t seem to understand by her latest column all but endorsing Romney “so we can beat Obama”.
So in other words, we get rid of Obama and put in Obama.
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