Posted on 09/23/2010 2:51:51 PM PDT by Qbert
The NRSC is highlighting West Virginia governor Joe Manchin's recent claim to West Virginia Gazette reporter Alison Knezevich that he wouldn't have voted for Obamacare:
"I wouldn't have voted for the final version of that thing with the way that it came out."
The NRSC points out a YouTube clip of Manchin saying he was "totally behind health care reform." But that was from September 2009. Manchin, now the Democratic candidate for Robert Byrd's vacant Senate seat, could have easily changed his mind between then and the vote on the "final verion" of "that thing" in March 2010. But he didn't:
During a March 15, 2010 panel on health care at the National Governors Association in Washington, Manchin said that he would vote for the health care bill if he were a congressman. The panel's moderator, journalist Karen Tumulty, asked Manchin and other governors on the panel, "If you were a House member ... and you've got your choice: vote up on the Senate bill or vote down on the Senate bill, how do you vote?"
"I'd be for it," Manchin replied. "You have to move this ball forward. ... I have never, since I've been in the legislative process, and since I have been governor, I have never got a perfect bill."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZCFDgQD3YE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Manchin 3/15/2010:
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/ID/220989&start=4192&end=4268
Uhhhhhhh....yeah. Therein lies the whole problem. NOBODY knew what was in the final version until after it came out.
So, ipso facto, you WOULD have voted for it.
Ha! Busted! In your face! How ya like me now!
Unless Obamakkkare is repealed, people in West Virginia will be left without medical care.
“I would have voted for it, but that was before I would have voted against it.”
Make campaign videos out of that for Raese, PLEASE!!!
We can win this thing.
Expose the lying political hack to We The People in his state. Time to vote out the garbage on November 2nd. Anyone that supported this genocide must be sent packing in disgrace on November 2nd.
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