He vetoed a bill granting over-the-counter access to the Morning after pill in Massachusetts. He also donated large amounts of money to Massachusetts Citizens for Life.
2) He’s had a conversion on the sanctity of marriage.
Not true. He was always for traditional marriage. He opposed gay marriage from the beginning and campiagned hard for a constitutional amendment to overturn the MA Supreme Judicial Court decision that forced gay marriage on the Commonwealth.
3) He instituted a now-failing form of socialist-lite medical coverage in Massachussetts. How am I to believe that he now wants smaller government?
It's not failing and it's very far from socialist. The crux of his plan was to allow private insurance companies to offer cheaper, no-frills plans to individuals and set up a centralized insurance policy exchange (like a stock exchange) where people could comaprison shop for policies. Individual premiums are now half of what they were before.
The other part of his plan was to re-direct money previously spent on the bills of uninsured users of emergency rooms to subsidize insurance premiums for people who were too wealthy to qualify for medicade but too poor to afford their own plans. Yes, this is a little socialistic, but it seems to me it's better to subsidize insurance than it is to give uninsured people free medical care in emergency rooms.
A-freakin Men!!
But these Mitt Romney are so knee-jerk in their distain for the man, that they dont even bother to LOOK at the details of the Massachusetts plan.
In fact, there is MORE private insurance plans being implemented in Massachusetts now than before when many middle-class and well-to-do people were simply pushing their catastrophic hospital bills onto MediCaid and MediCare -- because they KNEW a compassionate society would never make them sell their assets to pay huge medical bills.
These Romney haters simply yell "Socialist Socialist" at the top of their lungs, without even knowning what the heck Romney proposed.
It's not only depressing, it's embarrassing to the conservative cause that I once thought was analytical and not fraught with juvenile emotion like the lib-Dems.