Posted on 09/21/2009 6:28:55 PM PDT by mountainbunny
There he goes again. Newsmax has published an interview with Mitt Romney in which he once again touts his big government Massachusetts health care plan as a monumental success:
"What we were able to accomplish was to get almost all of our citizens insured without breaking the bank and without having a so-called public option," Romney says. "I think the program is a real success and that it can teach lessons to other states, and to the nation."
To start with, Romney is wrong on the merits. Michael Cannon has done an excellent job documenting what a colossal failure Romneycare has been, bringing higher costs and longer wait times to citizens of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation numbers Romney cites in his interview understated the cost of the legislation by, among other things, ignoring the program's cost to the federal government. Even the state's Democratic State Treasurer, Timothy P. Cahill, has told the Boston Globe that the promised savings from the universal health care legislation never materialized, and he cautioned that, "It's a warning for the federal government as it looks to do something similar.''
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
This SOB had rather sell us into slavery to win the POTUS seat more than anything else. Get rid of these idiots from the GOP. My gosh, what does it take to WAKE UP you Mittbots?
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Bay State health insurance premiums highest in country (Rein in health costs, Massachusetts urged)
Boston Globe ^ | 8/22/09 | Kay Lazar
I just love the way you just said what I think. I'll be damned if the guvmint is going to force me to play this marxist game.
LLS
This is the end of Romney. If he had come out and said government, even at the state level, cannot do this, I think he would have had a shot. But he can’t see it. Or can’t admit it.
I don’t think for one minute that Romney hates America the way that Obozo does, but he has a sense of omnipotence and that is a bad thing.
I am certainly not one of these you describe. When I saw the Romney/Kennedy debate, I thought it was a love fest between two democrats, and I have not supported him since. Do we have any REAL Republicans out there? I am beginning to think we can count them on one hand.
As awful as Obama is, I don’t see much hope for a viable Republican candidate in 2012. Here’s hoping that Obama defeats himself.
Some people are blinded by what they see as Romney's "family values", his faith, etc.
Many of the people who support Romney focus like a laser on those things - they never look too closely at his record... it ruins the idea that he's a perfect candidate. In fact, if you point those things out, they will claim he's changed, he's different, he just did what "had" to be done.
If it sounds like the same sort of superficiality that got Obama elected, that's probably not a coincidence.
And like Obama, electing a packaged idea rather than an actual man (or woman) with actual ideas that he's (she's) committed to, is a bad, bad thing.
Sarah would never agree.
LLS
Make that 50,000,000 plus one more.
Pro choice, government health care, total tool... vs. pro choice, government health care, total tool in 2012. AKA, Obama vs. Romney.
It’s preposterous
I agree with your assessment. The Republican Party will nominate Hucklebee, Romney, or probably John Mc Cain again. Either way obama wins again.
No. America has had a belly full already.
Obama is a one term wonder.
I find myself in full agreement with you.
Romney was the best running last year.
There are no conservative leaders because there are damn few across-the-board 3-pillar economic-security-social conservatives.
Nobody wants to be Alan Keyesed - so conservative that even his (1/3 and 2/3) “conservative” “friends” call him a loon and desert to the left.
Thank you! :)
Careful - there are some Freepers who still believe that Mitt is the Great White Salvation of the Republican Party, and don’t take too kindly to disparaging posts of his character or his record (even if true).
As for me - Romney is someone I just don’t believe I would cast a vote for.
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