Actually, RINO has many other problems which far exceed the issues associated with RomneyCare
Posted on 05/15/2011 12:41:05 PM PDT by AmericaTalks
With the announcement by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee that he will not be seeking the nomination for president of the United States on the Republican ticket, the presumption is that the frontrunner is now former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
But Romney has some very serious baggage in mounting a successful campaign against incumbent Barack Hussein Obama. He implemented a health care plan in Massachusetts which he said at the time would be the model upon which a national plan could be based. And the architects of ObamaCare have said that indeed, their bill was modeled in part after RomneyCare.
Romney delivered a speech in Michigan last week in which he defended the decisions he made in Massachusetts, rather than distancing himself from them. He said that his plan was fundamentally different from the national law loathed by conservatives.
"Our plan was a state solution to a state problem and his is a power grab on the federal government to put in place a one-size-fits-all plan across the nation," he said.
"I know some of my more liberal friends don't find that a compelling difference," he said. "But those of us who believe the decision to make America a federalist system was not just a throwaway decision on an important fundamental element of what makes America such a successful nation and that is something of course is lost in ObamaCare."
In an article in USA Today prior to the speech, Romney wrote "If I am elected president, I will issue on my first day in office an executive order paving the way for waivers from ObamaCare for all 50 states. "Subsequently, I will call on Congress to fully repeal ObamaCare."
While attempting to portray the national law as a huge power grab by Washington, one in which the federal government clearly oversteps its bounds, Romney's GOP rivals see it as disingenuous, and an albatross around the neck of his political ambitions upon which they can capitalize.
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum issued a statement in which he said "I greatly respect Gov. Romney and admire many of his personal and professional accomplishments, but his work to institute the precursor to national socialized medicine is not one of them. Both RomneyCare and ObamaCare infringe upon individual freedom and exponentially increase the government's healthcare cost burden," he added. "RomneyCare has, in fact, not made healthcare better or saved costs in Massachusetts. It's done just the opposite."
And a recently released report by the Massachusetts Medical Society details how wait times to get in to see everyone from a pediatrician to an OB/GYN have increased dramatically under RomneyCare.
Try as he might, Romney cannot put the burden of his own massive boondoggle behind him. And without the ability to do so, there is no way he can present himself as a viable candidate to defeat Barack Obama in 2012. In a debate with Obama on this critical which eats into 1/6 of our economy, Romney would face a no-win situation, and would virtually guarantee Obama a second term.
Clearly anyone who is responsible for creating the model upon which this horrible national law was based would be a disaster as the GOP nominee. It is imperative that the Republican presidential candidate must be someone who can represent with honor a clear opposition to ObamaCare.
And that candidate must not be Mitt Romney.
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Any math or engineering major past the freshman year could pick more holes in the original Romney plan than Obama has holes in his head.
Romney is a RINO, and as such, carries with him the typical liberal inability to adequately utilize anything that deals with mathematics or science.
May he go back to doing whatever it is that politicians do - besides consuming food and turning it into Obamastuff.
Romney couldn’t even beat McCain => enough said...
Romney is right.
Romneycare is a great example of how Obamacare will fail.
So Huckabee is out. Romney is most likely DOA. Newt just shot himself in the foot with his latest statement. The field is narrowing down.
Actually, RINO has many other problems which far exceed the issues associated with RomneyCare
Romney should do the right thing, and give up his presidential aspirations. He should find a conservative who will make America a better place, and support him or her.
Happily Huckabee made the right decision. If Romney stays in he just dilutes the vote for a goo, strong, and financially able candidate (Provided the Tea Party comes up with one). Anyone the GOP picks and backs will be a deliberate loser!
Why is this article here. Conservatives don’t care one iota about Obamacare. They favor it.
Neither the GOP nor the Tea Party insisted on defunding it as basic minimum condition for passing the 2011 budget continuing resolution that goes to October. IT WAS NOT DEFUNDED AND NO ONE CARED. Defunding it was not a minimum condition for passage. It is fully funded in the 2011 CR.
Neither the Tea Party nor the GOP will make defunding Obamacare a minimum, zero compromise, condition for passing the debt ceiling increase, either. Conservatives don’t care about it at all. So Romney’s position on this matter should be inconsequential.
In what alternate reality is Mitt Rommney a front runner as a Republican Presidential candidate?
Rommney WILL NEVER be President of the US as a Republican.
It doesn’t matter who is the Republican candidate, the only one that will make it to the Presidential ballot will be a RINO. If they are not, they will be destroyed by the Republican party, like they did for Buchanan when he primaried Bush I, or like they are doing to Palin, or Bachmann right now.
There are other possible candidates that have yet to indicate and there's absolutely no problem with that as the media is just lying in wait to tear up the reputations of those they don't want to run against, so why give them more time.
The field of RINOs is self-destructing.
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