Romney keeps low public profile amid health care hearings

msnbc ^ | 3-28-12 | By Garrett Haake and Michael O'Brien

[Mozilla]

Mitt Romney’s performed a disappearing act of sorts during three days of hearings before the Supreme Court on President Obama’s health care law, arguably the most high-profile of issues during the 2012 election, and the motivating issue for conservative primary voters.

Romney has held just one public event, a speech at a medical device company outside San Diego, over the course of three days of oral arguments before the high court.

The Republican presidential frontrunner has good reasons to be off the trail. He’s spent the past few days raising needed money to finance his campaign, and because there is no primary until April 3, Romney is able to use this week for some down time.

But as the fate of Obama’s signature health reform law is being litigated in both the court and in the national media, Romney, perhaps by coincidence, largely ducked out of public view.

Romney’s stop Monday at Nuvasive, a spinal-surgery device company less than 10 miles from Romney's La Jolla home, included only perfunctory criticism of the health care law. The ex-governor decried the law's tax implications and said as many as 30 percent of Americans would likely lose their employer-based insurance once the law were fully in effect.

But Romney, who has famously had to wrestle with the similarities between Obama’s law and the reforms Romney had signed as governor of Massachusetts, neglected to make any direct call for its repeal, or concrete mention of how it would be replaced.

In fact, Romney, who stood in front of a giant banner reading "Repeal and Replace Obamacare," and had the same printed on a podium placard, did not once make mention of the Supreme Court case being argued.

[Sacajaweau]

Duh....Kinda like giving Obama your 2 aces.

[Tennessee Nana]

Willard is praying to his gods that they dont throw out RomneyObamaCare..

[EagleUSA]

Romney should have shed RomneyCare years ago and admitted his BIG MISTAKE. He is praying the SCOTUS trashes Obamacare as much as we are. For many reasons.

That being said, good news from the comments on the SCOTUS over the past three days, even from Justice Kennedy. It will be real clear who the Obama socialist-activists are when the opinions are written, versus who supports our Constitutional Republic.

[PGalt]

Johnsoncare/Hillarycare/Romneycare/Obamacare/Totalitariancare.

Commerce clause communists, 10th amendment totalitarians, necessary and proper progressives...THEY ALL SUCK.

DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic.