Posted on 12/25/2007 2:34:26 PM PST by Brices Crossroads
I can only imagine if youtube was around prior to Reagan’s conversion to a pro-life platform.
It was apparently speaking fees. This company does diabetes research, which Huckabee was interested in. Their website, which is at the link in the article, prominently mentions embryonic stem cell research. As to whether Huck knew or not, he has not explained himself or addressed this at all. (The company also purchased thousands of copies of his weight loss book.)
Romney took a hit in August for owning stock in this company because it does embryonic stem cell research. It was widely reported, yet Huck never followed suit by returning the 35K or giving back the money for the books. He needs to address this issue. What did he know and when did he know it? (Where have we heard that before?) It is a major red flag, considering the fact that he is going all over Iowa condemning the very same research.
You got a guy banned, and you consider that a win?
Now back on point...
Romney’s plan requires people to buy *private* health insurance. Those insurance plans cover abortion...much like many of the insurance plans that every Tom, Dick, and Harry pay a premium to every month.
Taxpayers aren’t funding abortions in MA any more so than you’re funding abortions if you pay an insurance premium to a private insurance company that covers abortion.
See something you do not remember or maybe don’t know is that it was brought up back then, and dismissed as a minor issue since time had passed and Reagan had take CONSISTANT stands for more than just one election cycle....
As for the rest, it is what it is. You are ordering people to buy private health insurance. That is basically fascist actually, not socialist.
I understand your reservations about Romney, but suppose he wins the nomination?
Mitt says he’s pro-life, but you don’t believe him. All of the Dems say they are pro-choice.
Do you not believe them too?
Since you seem to know so much about Reagan, could you explain his definition of the “11th amendment”?
You’re pursuing a scorched-Earth policy in a friggin’ primary in which Fred Thompson doesn’t stand a chance. The only winner will be the Democrats.
Bzzzzt. Wrong.
He got himself banned.
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I don't see you whining about mandatory car insurance, which is required so that the rest of us don't have to pay for some guy's lack of financial common sense. To say that mandatory *private* health insurance is the same as taxpayer funded abortions is laughable.
Mandatory car insurance requires you insure the other guy against loss for what you and your car might do to him.
Do you know of any state that requires you insure yourself for your own automobile loss?
You really shouldn’t have brought up Reagan . Reagan never tried to out Liberal a Kennedy ...
This is unfortunately too easy , watch the whole thing ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI
Oh and btw , how dare you try to disparage Reagan ....
Romney shreds Romney , just think what the Dims will do ...
“Romneys plan requires people to buy *private* health insurance”
And the law which requires them to buy the insurance also requires the insurance to cover the abortion. The insurance claims (including those for abortion) are paid from the premiums. This is exactly the same as if you took it directly from their pockets. The only difference is that the premiums are cycled through private insurance companies. The taxpayers have no choice. They have to belong, whether they want abortion coverage or not. The fact that the money does not pass through the government hands is a distinction without a difference.
Why?
The state forces you to pay money into a which pays for abortions. At its essence it is indistinguishable from taxpayer-funded abortions.
They take their example from the top.
Remember: Willard lied about Ronald Reagan's pro-life credentials.
I’m beginning to wonder if maybe the Willardians just don’t understand this.
Romney’s past is catching up with him , and now we get to watch his campaign squirm .... very similar to the Kerry squirm ...
“Im beginning to wonder if maybe the Willardians just dont understand this.”
I am forced to conclude that the ones who are just shilling for Romney do not want to understand it. I think the ones who are misled can be reasoned with. You cannot argue with what he did. He expanded public funding abortion (or, if they insist, publicly coerced funding) in Massachusetts by 500%. That is his record and he cannot run from it.
The analogy is more apt to be: ‘so, if we have to have insurance and a license to use the public roads, we ought ordered to have insurance to use ...’
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You guys are a hoot. The level of narcissistic sense of self-importance by a select few on this board could keep a shrink busy for an entire career.
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