Mitt Romney is a good man, and would probably make a pretty decent president, but his primary “accomplishment” as the governor of Massachusetts was to provide the prototype for Obamacare. This disqualifies him as an effective GOP standard bearer for the 2012 election.
As the latest Rasmussen poll shows, a growing majority of likely voters want Obamacare repealed. Thus, the man who provided the model for that much-hated legislation simply cannot credibly lead the charge against it. David Boaz succinctly lays out Romney’s dilemma:
[Romney is having trouble] getting people to understand the difference between his Massachusetts universal-health-care plan, which featured an individual mandate, subsidies, and forbidding insurance companies to deny coverage for preexisting conditions, and the Obama-Reid-Pelosi plan, which features an individual mandate, subsidies, and forbidding insurance companies to deny coverage for preexisting conditions.
Romney tries his best to change the subject to Obamacare’s taxes or its unconstitutional features, but such arcane arguments will never cut it when he’s up against Obama henchmen like David Plouffe and David Axelrod. If he gets the GOP nomination, they’ll eat his lunch.
In 2012, the GOP will need a candidate as pure as the driven snow on government-run health care. No matter how hard he spins his record, Romney can never pull that off. No matter how many straw polls he wins, the 2006 Massachusetts health “reforms” are Romney’s indelible mark of Cain.
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No matter how nice a man or how well intentioned the fact that he promoted the MA health care plan and continues to defend it in spite of the fact the state is going under because of it make him NOT an appropriate candidate for the GOP if in fact the GOP is going to adhere to the conservative guidelines the people are now mandating in force. I am having a problem understanding how he is even considered for this, let alone how he could win the straw vote in LA last week.
Posted 13 Apr 2010 at 12:17 pm ¶Post a Comment