2012: Obama, Romney & Inevitability

Fits News ^ | October 6, 2009 | Mande Wilkes

[2ndDivisionVet]

Whether or not anyone prefers to acknowledge it, Mitt Romney is already the default, de facto Republican presidential nominee in 2012 – and, too, he is already the clear loser.

Health care, singularly, will guarantee Barack Obama a second term – even if he never actually achieves meaningful “reform,” or even if he manages reform but it ends up becoming a festering, hemorrhaging mess … like anything the government runs.

Sure, the health care issue appears to be a political landmine for Obama right now, but he just can’t lose for winning, and there’s no area in which that rings more true than health care reform.

Pitted against Romney (as ultimately will happen, because who else is there, really?), Obama will come out looking every bit the better man for the job.

You see, Romney and health care … he’s been there, he’s done that.

As governor of Massachusetts, Romney socialized the state’s health care system, insuring nearly every resident by forcing people to choose between purchasing coverage or paying a penalty for non-compliance. (Yes, Romney’s a Republican; yes, he’s a business wizard; no, those traits don’t at all jive with his stateside socialization of a major private sector).

The success of Romney’s health care reform has, on balance, been lukewarm.

It’s been bad for business start-ups and expansions, but pretty good for people (well, not entrepreneurial people, but still …)

There is, naturally, a funding problem for Massachusett’s program, the solution for which would surely be increased corporate taxation, except that, um, that well has too run dry at the hands of Romney’s grand plan.

So when you think about it, Romneycare really isn’t a success at all.

Anyway, the relative merits of Romney’s reform are not really the point. Even an entirely successful – fully-funded, business-friendly, quality-controlled, patient-primary – result would still leave Romney in the lurches come 2012.

Romney’s problem is, more to the point, that he’ll be running as a Democrat in disguise against a Democrat demagogue.

If there is to be one issue to set apart Republican from Democrat, it has to be health care. It’s one thing for a Republican politician to triangulate on the issue of health care reform – to mildly oppose it, then to begrudgingly admit its merits – but it’s a whole ‘nother thing for a Republican to endorse, initiate, and institute a socialized system of health coverage.

In 2012, two Democrats will be vying for the presidency, and one of those Democrats is Barack Obama. He just can’t lose.

[Gator113]

I might actually bother to read this later.... but regardless of what it says...Palin is going to be the next REAL president.

[Soothesayer9]

Hope she has a damn tough vp pick. We will need him when she QUITS under all the Dem pressure a year into her presidency. If she can’t hack Alaska without quitting, how will she hack the entire United States of America when the going gets rough??

[Gator113]

A post as idiotic as yours belongs on a loony lib forum.