We did block Miers but got Roberts instead. Of course we were all happy about that at the time. No one could foresee that he’d turn traitor to the cause just as we needed him most. ObamaCare should already be dead by now and not even an issue. Bush was not a movement conservative, he was a “compassionate” conservative and McCain was even less conservative. I remember when we all swore, “Never again!”
But Romney’s an out and out liberal progressive leftist and flip-flopping, bald-faced liar to boot, but here they’re asking for our vote? We warned them that we’d never vote for an abortionist, homosexualist statist and I have no intention of ever selling my soul for the GOP.
This is true although I suspect even Bush wouldn’t have guessed that John Roberts would vote that way on Obamacare. I can see both sides on whether or not the court should have overturned Obamacare from the conservative point-of-view. But what I really focus on is the fact that single-payer “Medicare for all” would be constitutional. So I think even if the court had sided with us, a government takeover of health care is still a battle that will continue and that we have to win in the hearts and minds of the public.
At this point, if the Romney/Ryan plan truly touts concrete free market reforms in health care, then we have the danger of a loss in this election being interpreted as an endorsement of Obamacare and a rebuke of private sector health care. It’s worth analyzing all the potential consequences of this election up to the time we go into the polling booth.
I supported Newt in the primary and would never shy away from having a true, red-meat conservative on the top of the ticket. Strangely, we have in recent history only been handed them in the V.P. slot instead, from Kemp to Cheney to Palin to Ryan. I am still trying to figure out Romney to an extent. If he genuinely flip flops to the conservative side and stays there then I’m not going to really care what he did in the past.
At this point I feel it’s a chance I have to take. Even if we gridlock Obama and build up majorities in Congress, there will still be little chance of repealing Obamacare in 4 years once people start receiving freebies. Not to mention the backdoor amnesty that Obama has planned, something else that would be irreversible and could even ensure that Democrats never lose a presidential election again.