Posted on 07/03/2012 12:09:58 PM PDT by Perdogg
In the days since the Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare, some Democrats and commentators in the press have suggested that Mitt Romney is declaring a “cease-fire” on the issue and will no longer make it a centerpiece of his campaign to defeat President Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
From the article:
So is the Romney campaign, in fact, declaring a “cease-fire” on Obamacare? No, no, no, says Romney spokesman Ryan Williams. “From our perspective, Obamacare has been and will continue to be a central issue in the campaign,” says Williams. “It presents voters with a bright line that divides the two candidates. Gov. Romney is going to repeal Obamacare and President Obama is going to keep it. There is a clear choice in November.”
“It is something that [Romney] has been discussing on the campaign trail for the past year and that he will continue to discuss,” Williams adds. “It is bad law, it is bad policy, and it’s something that Gov. Romney is going to address on his first day in office. His commitment to repealing Obamacare is as strong as it was on the day Congress jammed it down the throat of the American public.”
the Etch-A-Sketch is getting quite a workout today...
Myth ROmneyCARE is OBVIOUSLY for ObamaCARE/ROMNEYcare.
Heck, DEATH PANELS will be NAMED after him.
ROMNEY DEATH PANELS.
ROMNEY DEATHCARE.
ROMNEYCARE should pull out. NOW. And save America.
Or, maybe people shouldn’t rely on opinion pieces by “staff reporters” and should wait for information from the source. Some people are just too darn eager to turn Romney into McCain. Do we really want that result again?
Could you actually write something intelligent once in a while, please?
Turn Romney into McCain. Never heard that one before.
ROMNEY made DEATHCARE and pretends otherwise.
McCain was a war hero.
Romney helps illegal aliens and pretends otherwise.
Romney threw Election 2008 to Obama.
Nobody is like the Backstabber Romney.
Of course the Romney campaign has not declared a truce on Obamacare.
The claim that they had was never anything but transparently pro-Obama lies.
This is why it was so popular here on America’s premier “conservative” forum.
>> the Etch-A-Sketch is getting quite a workout today...
Fresh poll results released maybe? Wind direction change? :-)
Amen!
There seems to be many trolls..... errr ‘conservative’ freepers that are only too happy to run with anything (even if unsourced or reported by staff reporters) that would result in Obama being re-elected.
(From NR today)
Steve Hayes has a very good takeout on the Romney campaign’s bizarre decision to throwback the Obamacare-tax issue yesterday. Steve writes:
One of the few bright spots in last week’s Supreme Court ruling on President Obama’s health care overhaul was a political one: The opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts argues that Obamacare is constitutional under the taxing powers of Congress. The Obama administration’s advocate before the Court, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, made this case during oral arguments, and Roberts bought it. The decision, in a sense, formalized what many conservatives had long argued: The Obamacare tax is a tax.
The politics could have hardly been better: The Obama administration and other Democrats would not only have to defend an unpopular law, but they’d have to try explain that a mandate upheld because of the power of Congress to tax was not, in fact, a tax. Democrats tried unsuccessfully to make that case this weekend with White House chief of staff Jack Lew and House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, among others, struggling to deflect the obvious implications of the Court’s decisions.
Those struggles may have ended yesterday morning when the Romney campaign announced that their candidate does not consider the mandate a tax. Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom appeared on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd, where he agreed with the host’s assertion that Romney “believes that you should not call the penalty a tax.”Fehrnstrom explained: “The governor disagreed with the ruling of the Court. He agreed with the dissent written by Justice Scalia, which very clearly stated that the mandate is not a tax.” Later, Romney spokeswoman Amanda Hennenberg confirmed that Romney doesn’t consider the mandate a tax, telling ABC News: “Governor Romney thinks it is an unconstitutional penalty.”
Steve rightly notes that there are other responses — good, solid, American-made responses — Fehrnstrom could have gone with instead. For instance, states have more established police powers so a penalty in Massachusetts’s mandates may indeed be a penalty, but a tax masquerading as a penalty at the federal level may still be a tax. He could have simply hammered the fact that Obama’s own view of the law was repudiated by the Supreme Court and that’s all that matters (a point I make in USA Today today). Heck, he could have just shouted “squirrel!”
Indeed, Fehrnstrom need not give an impregnable, irrefutable, answer. He need only turn the question back on Obama. Instead the Romney campaign threw Obama a lifeline. The whole Hayes piece is worth reading, but what comes away from it for me is that Romney wants to go into a clinch, to borrow a phrase from boxing, and break out of it only to land haymakers on the economy. I think it is an incredibly dangerous, risk-averse, strategy.
No, he cannot and will not.
It will be 100% derangement and lies from him, now till November.
Could you actually write something intelligent once in a while, please?
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I’ve yet to see that from Diogenesis.
You owe me a new keyboard. LOL!
“Some people are just too darn eager to turn Romney into McCain.”
I think he’s doing that pretty much on his own. I wish we could depend on him being a strong conservative, but I just don’t think it’s in him.
rogue yam continues insulting FReeRepublic
claiming it is faux “conservative” because it does
not bow in support rogue yam’s Liberal Love,
the author of BOTH RomneyCARE, RomneyDEATHPANELS,
RomneySTATISM, RomneyCRAVENNESS, and RomneyMARRIAGE.
Frankly, this week, Mr. RomneyCARE has shown he
is nothing but coward, as he hid under cover from BOTH
the SCOTUS ruling AND Fast and Furious.
[Mr. RomneyCARE ONLY comes out from hiding to
defend Obama and protect himself.]
Maybe it was a lie, maybe pressure ‘evolved’ his thinking.
But we can’t say for sure based on what we know of him now, can we. I hope he’s serious. I hope he sticks to this. But you or I can’t be sure. Can we.
“some Democrats and commentators” say it, so AP prints it.
LOL, it’s twue it’s twue
If they are polite, then return the favor.
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