Perhaps this is not the time to be sugar-coating things. The daunting and overwhelming fear among the non-Establishment persons of the conservative persuasion, is that Mitt Romney cannot and will not take the fight TO Obama, making this a referendum on the policies that have been in place since January 2009, and exacerbated more and more every day.
Romney SAYS he will stop all these abuses, but will he, really? The big question mark, is what he feels about what is without a doubt, the system he himself instituted in Massachuetts in regards to “mandated” health care. The “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”, the formal name of Obamacare, neither protects patients nor provides affordable care, and certainly shall not be able to do either in anything like a timely basis.
Depending on others to provide the basic elements of health care is not, and never was, the duty or responsibility of anyone other than the individual or those to whom the responsibility is delegated by law and by custom. The very young, the old, the infirm, and those who have suffered huge misfortune through either their own failing or the acts of others, are first and best served by those closest, and as designated by local authority. This responsibility should have never, ever, devolved upon the Federal government, because the very remoteness almost assures that timely and effective care will not be delivered. Even at the state level, there is a serious time factor, and the degree of assistance that may be provided always doubles back on the resources available.
In the end, it falls back upon the local community in which the unfortunate afflicted one dwells, and sometimes, an even more narrow definition of family, or religious affiliation, or neighbors. Do some of the subjects fall through the cracks? Yes, they do, but how many would just be left lying in the dust if the responsibility gets shrugged away and bucked on up to ever more distant supposed “benefactors”?
We cannot cure inequities of outcome, we may only attempt to assure equality of access to an upwardly mobile path. And by this I do not mean access to the fruits of others’ labor, only the opportunity to acquire fruits of one’s own.
Otherwise we all are reduced to a treadmill to oblivion, and the despair of the spirit that is its signature.
That is the complete antithesis of the American ideal.
said one of the GOP sources concerned about Gingrich................................... Ah yes, another CNN GOP source, aka known to all as Mr/Mrs Anonymous.
Article says this. Sounds like treason to me. Someone needs to shake the Tea Party third party mutiny stick at these whiny RINOs.
“If Gingrich does win, veteran GOP strategists tell CNN to expect pressure on Senate Minority Leaders Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner and other Republican leaders to call key GOP donors and ask them not to contribute to Gingrich’s campaign.”
The GOP is more scared of the Tea Party than the dems. Fear is blood in the water. Attack!
Fixed it. And yes it will.
“””If he’s the nominee, it’s a disaster. There is no way to sugar-coat it,” said one GOP congressional strategist””
And who exactly is this anonymous person? Or is the quote just a figment of Dana Bash’s imagination?
Nice try to cover for your hubby’s incompetence.
John King is married. Who’d have thunk it.
I thought everyone on CNN was as sexually ambiguous as Gloria Vanderbilt’s little Andy.
It is a disaster ONLY if you are a inside the beltway A$$ who fears that Newt might just work to tear your playhouse down!