I don’t buy into all things superficial and blanket declarations. What I would like from you is an explanation for that one sentence about a private plan being government funded.
I can see that Romney has faults. None of us is without flaws. But it doesn’t serve the conservative cause to say empty things like, “It’s *private* but the *government* pays for it.” You have to admit, that sounds like something someone from the Caracas School of Economics might say. Justifying it with, “Romney is a typical Massachusetts liberal” is, again, only vapid.
Just ask yourself this, if a ‘Rat governor had forced RomneyCare on a state, what would conservatives have to say about it?
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18322
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6407
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110008218
http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v30n1/romneycare.pdf
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11222
http://www.redstate.com/stories/policy/no_love_for_romneycare