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I don’t care for how this is shaping up. The conservatives are splitting the damn vote and are going to give Romney a win. I like Perry well enough but he has shown zero movement to the positive so why is he still in this race when he is clearly on his way to tieing John Huntsman? Hell he may even come in last in SC? If he can’t do better in SC with the money and resources he has tell me where he is going to do well outside of Texas? Right now there are two possibilities. Gingrich and Santorum. What conservatives need to do is take the last poll of the race and which ever conservative is ahead vote for them. It is far more important to block Romney in SC than anything thing else. It will become increasingly hard to stop him if he wins SC especially given a media, establishment etc that are feeding a message of inevitability and plenty of dumbass conservatives are falling in line like little robots mezmerized by the desire to back the ‘electable’ candidate as defined by msm. Not many but enough. SC Carolina could be our last battle. Imagine 8 years of Mitt Romney, a Gerald Ford moderate, or the real chance he loses to Obama because he is so weak in his passions and so damaged from his support for his own version of Obamacare and shifting positions.

This is a tragedy. The American people have never been more aligned for the defeat of liberalism than when Reagan beat Carter. Could you imagine if it had been Gerald Ford beating carter, or G HW Bush instead. The conservative asendency would likely not have happenned, the events leading up to 1994 would not have happenned, and 2010 would not have happenned. This isn’t a game folks. There are dire historical consequences at stake if we do not have a fighter who will not only defeat Obama but will further the goals of our goals of returning to founding principles. We do not have a Reagan but we do have a choice. We have individuals who have did impressive conservative things. Newt no matter how flawed accomplished amazing things and moved the ball that helped make possible the conservatism we have today. Santorum also may not have a record of strict fiscal conservatism but he has many conservative accomplishments and he was first elected in the 1994 wave.
The biggest thing I can not understand is how he could’ve supported Arlen Specter for President in 1996. Loyalty is one thing but for a man who holds his principles front and center and would have had a man who was not in the least pro-life for President is difficult to square with the Rick we see now. Rick Perry has a respectable record in Texas and was at the forefront of the Tea Party. Unfortunately he appears to be going no where. Even in SC he is tieing John Huntsman for last in all the polls. Still I’d vote for any of these men and all are better than Romney who gives us absolutely no sense of how he would govern and all we have is his record as a liberal MA gov only slightly more conservative that William Weld.

A vote for Romney is to expect him to govern differently than he has in the only office he held. It is to expect him not to be the compromising ‘uniter’ he was. Not to be the pro gay, pro abortion, fiscal liberal whose greatest claim to fame was passing state run subsidized Health Care which isn’t even fully funded by MA but for which half comes from the federal government and also has not reduced health care costs but appears to have accelerated them to new heights as MA leads the nation in their rise far above the national average. Some have tried to downplay this but one thing is clear is the cost of to privately insured has grown the most just as would happen with Obamacare and that isn’t even considering the cost that the privately insured are paying to keep afloat the subsidized public portion which is also subsized by federal funds.

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A new report finds that health care spending in Massachusetts continues to increase, with private payer costs outpacing national health care spending and spending by Medicare and MassHealth — the state’s Medicaid and CHIP program:

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Spending per privately insured member grew 6 percent from 2007 to 2008 and another 10 percent from 2008 to 2009. This rate of growth was substantially higher than the increase in national personal health care expenditures per capita from 2008 to 2009. In 2009, national personal health care spending per capita increased 4.6 percent—a deceleration from 4.9 percent growth in 2008.

Spending by private payers grew faster than spending by public payers. The rate of growth for spending on privately insured people from 2007 to 2008 also outpaced the growth in spending for Massachusetts residents in Medicare (4.8 percent) or MassHealth (2.8 percent) during the same time period (Figure A). The rates of growth for both private and public payers in Massachusetts continued to outpace increases in per capita state gross domestic product and wages.
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http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dhcfp/cost-trend-docs/cost-trends-docs-2011/health-expenditures-report.pdf