Posted on 09/26/2009 4:27:55 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
The national health care reform debate is far from settled, but one of the casualties is already clear: former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Three years ago, Romney was heralded for his innovative effort to institute near-universal health care in his state. But now that the issue has emerged as a partisan fault line and the Massachusetts plan has provided some guidance for Democratic reform efforts, Romney finds himself bruised and on the defensive as the GOP rallies around opposition to President Barack Obama’s plans.
When Romney came to Washington last week to speak to social conservative activists at the annual Value Voters Summit, his potential 2012 GOP rivals chewed him up in front of the same audience over his Massachusetts legacy.
Before he took the stage to criticize the president’s approach to foreign policy and the economy, the former governor was dinged by one of his opponents for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
“It’s going to bankrupt their entire budget,” former Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee said of Romney’s health care program in his address to the summit. “The only thing inexpensive about the Massachusetts health care bill is that there you can get a $50 abortion.”
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By who?
Ted Kennedy.
He was heralded by all the same people who consistently “advise” GOP politicians to do stupid things.
i think he is pretty much done
I hope you’re right
This is the only benefit I have seen to this whole Obamacare mess: it may have killed off Romney as a presidential candidate. Hopefully. Now what can we do to get “Huckleberry” to give up his ambitions.
Oh my. It's a little early to be taking the gloves off but go ahead boys - Sarah Palin
This is what happens when RINOs run in blue states and when moderate or conservative democrats run in far right districts which is what is happening now with the blue dog democrats in the healthcare debate if it were not for the fact that the government and the administration and Congressional leaders are all trying and attempting to shut down any debate at all. If they get away with that, look for a major conservative landslide in 2010.
Why is McCain holding a fund-raiser here in AZ for him next week?
National review.
Romney a victim of his own stupidity. This jerk needs to go home and stop muddying the waters with his worthlessness.
For once, Huckabee speaks the truth.
Whoever said that a picture is worth a thousand words must have drawn his inspiration from that picture.
I’m laughing too. Rinos do what feels good getting along with their “friends across the aisle” at the moment and then are slammed by the reality of their messes in the near future.
At the same time the doctors will all suffer a serious wage cut.
The fact any Democrats at all want to move in that direction proves that they are stupider than the Republicans who preceeded them.
Even without the photoshopping he looks like a braying jackass. LOL
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