Care to take me up on my offer?
“I’ll make a deal with you and everyone else here who thinks I’m wrong: show me how we can bring Willard Romney the open socialist in line with conservatism to any degree and I’ll reluctantly support him.
I’m not some unreasonable idealist; I said it wasn’t about purity from the start and I meant it. Hell, if Romney would stop defending Romneycare and adopt a flat tax plan like Newt’s, that would be enough for me to vote for him because that, at least, would make some significant headway into fixing the economy.”
I don’t think Romney is an open socialist.
Romney care was a state requirement to buy insurance, in response to a federal requirement for Emergency Rooms to treat anyone who walks in. What were the alternatives?
1. let ER go bankrupt.
2. put ER workers in jail for violation of federal law.
3. enslave ER workers, forcing them to work on people who can’t pay.
4. steal from people with insurance, making them pay for people without.
5. fine people without insurance, and fine them enough to cover the ER costs they run up.
6. fine the people without insurance, but not enough to cover the ER costs- subsidize with other tax money.
7. invent a government program to pay for all health care.
Of those options, 5 sounds the most conservative to me, and it is the best description of Romney care. 6 is the Obamacare option, forced after 7 didn’t fly.
Here is a technique:
Vote for Mitt. He gets elected.
Vote for (R) for Representatives. A majority get elected.
Vote for (R) for Senator. A 60% majority get elected.
Then we can put through legislation that is all (R) and the liberal wing of the party will have to cater to the most conservative wing of the (R) party.
That is essentially what happened in 2008, except with a (D) instead of a (R) and the liberals/socialists rather than with the conservatives.
Imagine: doing away with the EPA. How about the DEd. Perhaps even cutting back on the regulations from HUD that prevent cities from adjusting to modern conditions. Throw in a conservative supreme court justice or two, but one as stellar as Thomas is unlikely.