Levin discusses the exchange between Santorum and Romney on which I based yesterday’s American Spectator column. He points out, among other things, that Romney still defends the mandate he enacted in Massachusetts. The problem here is not that it was unconstitutional, as is the ObamaCare mandate (states have the right to enact such laws whereas Congress does not), but that it was a monumental [...]
My column in today’s American Spectator discusses Mitt Romney’s lack of genuine convictions, and how Rick Santorum exposed that fatal flaw in last Thursday’s Republican debate: The most telling moment of the debate was [Romney's] response to Rick Santorum’s eloquent explanation of ObamaCare’s importance to the GOP’s strategy in the general election and why giving Romney the nomination [...]
Rick Santorum explains ObamaCare’s importance to the GOP’s strategy in the general election and why Romney can’t effectively make the case for repeal. Santorum pointed out that RomneyCare provided the blueprint for Obama’s plan and addeed: Folks, we can’t give this issue away in this election. It is about fundamental freedom. Giving the GOP presidential nomination to Romney will indeed [...]
Santorum used ObamaCare to define himself as the only genuine conservative in the race by describing the histories of Romney and Gingrich as fair weather conservatives who caved on health reform: The biggest issue we have to deal with in this election that’s crushing the economy, will crush it even further and crush freedom … [...]
Rick Santorum says that Romneycare,” the Masschusetts healthcare plan that was a model for Obamacare, disqualifies Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee for president in November: Romneycare is a real scarlet letter here. We can’t have a nominee that takes away the most important issue in this election, which is an explosion of the federal government and [...]
My column in today’s American Spectator discusses the hits Rick Santorum has been taking from the “news” media since his stunning performance last week in Iowa. Among other things, they are attacking him for rejecting a study on the connection between lack of insurance and patient mortality: Among the nuggets they have unearthed involves an [...]
