Posted on 10/13/2010 8:04:00 AM PDT by pissant
The fight for the Republican presidential nomination hasn’t officially started, but conservatives around the country are already pressuring former Mass. governor and likely presidential candidate Mitt Romney to apologize for signing the Commonwealth’s health care reform bill into law.
“Stopping Obamacare cold has become an article of faith on the right,” Politico reported earlier this week, “and Romney is facing the prospect that his health care plan could be his undoing as a presidential contender.”
But calls for Romney to disown his own health care plan haven’t sat well with many Massachusetts Republicans. As Romney's Republican opponents prepare to rip his — and their — health-care legacy apart, they are urging the former governor to defend the law.
That hasn't stopped the calls from mounting. In a blog post entitled, “Say Goodbye to Mitt Romney,” Republican strategist Bill Pascoe encouraged Romney to “say six simple words” about Massachusetts health care reform: “‘I was wrong. I am sorry.’” L. Brent Bozell, president of the Conservative Victory Committee, said he “would advise [Romney] to acknowledge he made a mistake.” Penny Nance, chief executive officer of Concerned Women for America, said that “the [health care] failure in Massachusetts is going to be a huge hurdle to get over to win the support of conservatives,” and that to “get over that hurdle, [Romney] needs to acknowledge that failure.” And Tom McClusky, vice president for government affairs at the Family Research Council, has knocked Romney as well: “He has defended the law and continues to defend it. And there are things in the law that are indefensible,” he said.
According to interviews with several Bay State Republican lawmakers and spokespeople, these out-of-state critics are missing two key points.
First, Massachusetts Republicans argue that RomneyCare, as passed, was a solid bill that deserved Republican support.
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Baker and Tisei support RomneyCare. Tisei got lots of money from Health Insurance providers. The constitutionality was dismissed even by CLT&G’s Barbara Anderson.
Romney did do the country a favor giving a sneak preview of Obamacare.
Maybe Mittens can tell us he was “brainwashed” into passing Romneycare. He's a goober.
As the nation swings Right, demanding smaller government and tax reduction, why would any sane Republican vote for the instigator of RomneyCare in MA? That would truly be a death wish.
I’m no Romney fan, but I don’t see the conflict here.
STATES can pass whatever law they want. And on health care, it would be good if we had 50 different laboratories to see what works best. (For exampe, Vermont wants to pass a single payer system. Why not? It’s their State).
Passing a FEDERAL health care law, with a mandate no less, is an entirely different matter.
All Romney has to say is: Hey, we’re trying something different in Mass. It may work, it may not. But it doesn’t mean I support a national plan, with a mandate no less.
No conflict at all. No hypocrisy at all.
States rights all the way.
Yeah Mitt, go on the road fully supporting Romneycare, which you still take credit for and support in speeches anyways.
Between that and your lifetime of hunting and NRA membership and rock solid (this cycle) prolife creds your are a “sure thing”...
LOL...
This is just silly. Apologizing won’t do anything other than give the Dems an issue and the MSM something to make hay over. I’m not voting for Flip-Flop Mitt whether he apologizes or not.
Yes. If states want to be stupid, then people can pick up and leave for another state. The stupidest states will suffer for their stupidity. Although frankly I’m not sure whether a single-payer healthcare mandate, even at the state level, doesn’t cross the line by violating some of our basic constitutional freedoms.
The Boston Glob speaks for Republicans? Since when?! I’m a life long Republican and I ask Romney to go jump off a cliff.
Well, even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while...I still ain’t voting for him.
Myth is so slimey his flip-flops even fail. I can’t stand the guy and would be very disappointed if the conservatives don’t just kick his lying-azz out!
A State single payer system wouldn’t be a ‘mandate’to buy a product. It would be a State tax levied to provide a service for residents. And as far as I know, every State constitution allows for taxes.
I just don’t see that as a Federal Constitutional issue.
And yes, you’re right. Some states would enact implement really stupid solutions, and they would pay for that by loss of businesses and/or population. But isn’t that the whole point of Federalism? You can move to a state that has laws more to your liking.
BS. The only people that support Rommneycare are people who are Marxists and/or have their finger in the pie.
Mitt’s in a quandary flip again or stick with Mittcare...no good direction to go!!
We can start calling him "states rights, Mitt"!
Mitt Romney:"These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense," "They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people."
Mitt Romney: "I'm not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses."
So Romney “apologizes” for his Marxist Romney Care law. He’s STILL a leftist in republican clothing. Lying is what liberals do BEST, after all
Mitt doesn’t need to apologize, he just needs to stop running for President.
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