My respect for Slick Willard just went up.
I expected him to try to disown it. Its good he’s sticking by it even if its not popular.
I don’t agree RomneyCare is a good thing ever but what I hate more is a politician who is a weathervane.
Mittens has that reputation. Overcoming it will be a tall order.
Not mine. The fact that he will waffle on about anything else means that he is truly in favor of government-run health care. If this is what he wants to hang his hat on, he should be running in the Dem primary, not the GOP.
Your giving him to much credit. He had a problem, he would have to choose, Do I back the challenge to O-car at the Supreme? THAT is the QUESTION that MATTERS.
He is just trying to seperate the two which is impossible.
Now he can be asked straight, do you think Obamacare is unconstitutional? Will you repeal Obamacare?
My position on the whole freakin’ thing has been a Constitutional argument based on Amendment 10. Nowhere in the Constitution does the federal government have a right to inflict a healthcare law on every citizen.
BUT: the rights not given to the feds are reserved for the “states and the people”. What that means, from my studies, is that the various states can be laboratories for their own populations. If the people of a state want to do something (school vouchers, healthcare, drinking ages, etc.), then they ought to be free to do so.
Long before this primary season started, I was keen on the laboratory idea. Other states can learn from one state’s example and adapt for their own population. The “one size fits all” of a federal plan, however well-meaning, is a recipe for disaster.
NOW: people can say, “States don’t have the right to do that either.” To which I would say, “That is a policy decision for the people (see the 10th amendment again!) to make!”
Rick Perry made much of the same “states right” argument when it came to the tuition for illegals. That was reduced tuition for STATE SCHOOLS. A state issue.
I dunno. I know Romney is hated here. I don’t hate him. Don’t know if I’ll VOTE for him in the primary, but I just don’t see the demon behind the $100 haircut.
he’ll support it until asked in the next debate and then he’ll try to explain away his support for the mandate.
last week he was denying his former staff helped draft obamacare and that massachusetts isn’t a model for obamacare
give him time
he’ll torture the explanation again before 24 hours tick off the clock.
The problem for Romney is that making a good argument in the general election doesn't do much good if you've alienated too many conservatives to win the primary.