Conservatives won't let poor Mitt Romney off hook on health care

Wash Post ^ | 2/15/11 | Greg Sargeant

[pissant]

On Friday I argued that Mitt Romney's health care dilemma is akin to a Gordian Knot. Conservatives are insistent that Romney explain his previous support for the individual mandate, in order to prove he's not ideologically suspect, but when he does try to explain it, he only reinforces the sense that he's ideologically malleable and opportunistic.

Don't take my word for it, though. Righty blogger Jennifer Rubin reports that this is exactly how conservatives see it, and adds that his only way out is to repudiate Romneycare completely:

Romney has a huge problem that a wide array of Tea Partyers, Republican activists and officials, and conservative operatives think he can't overcome: RomneyCare. He leads in polls a year before the first primary because of name recognition...

However, if there is one point of consensus among plugged-in Republicans on the 2012 field, it is that Romney can't win unless he does a mea culpa on RomneyCare. Since he didn't and he won't do that, he's not going to be the nominee. Other than Romney admirers (and even some of them!) it's hard to find serious Republican players who disagree with that.

[fluffdaddy]

Bush and Cheney (much more the former than the latter) are the catastrophe from which we are trying to recover. Their various heresies hardly count in Romney's favor.

Never again. No more progressive Republicans. They've been a blight on our national existence ever since TR. They enable, reinforce and entrench all the damage that the left does. They never help repair it. Hoover, Landon, Wilke, Dewey, Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain — Some won, some lost, some won and then lost but they all hurt the conservative cause. The winners hurt it more than the losers.

We have to finish the job Reagan started and ideologically cleanse the Republican Party. We can't do that with the likes of Willard at the top of the ticket.

[stevem]

Darn tootin. Not to mention his gay marriage BS and his pimping for the so-called 'assault weapons ban', amongst 1000 other liberal idiocies.

Hasn't there been a Youtube item on FreeRepublic suggesting Romney is a militant pro abortionist...in his own words?

How does he feel about earmarks?

[Graybeard58]

Hasn't there been a Youtube item on FreeRepublic suggesting Romney is a militant pro abortionist...in his own words?

J.R. posted it a couple hundred times. He (Romney) didn't "suggest" it, he was more pro abort than Ted Kennedy.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Exactly which romney are we talking about?

[Twinkie]

McCain’s campaign was going nowhere until he named Governor Palin as his running mate. He took off after that; immediately the MSM attacks on Palin started, and McCain’s RINO campaign managers threw her to them like a bone to the dogs. Then McCain all but endorsed Obama; the rest is history. (I think McCain WILL endorse Obama after the primaries this time around.)

[clee1]

Good. Mitt would be every bit as bad for this Nation as Zero.

[Venturer]

If Ron Paul gets the Republican nomination , I will vote for him

If Romney gets it, I will NOT vote for him.

[mmercier]

Eagerly awaiting this years fine because I can not afford my health insurance, I think he is the greatest.

Anyone who votes for any politician emanating from he Masshole of this republic is a retard.

[sickoflibs]

LOL, I remember back in 2007 some Republicans claiming Romney would beat Obama because he enacted conservative health reform. But Obama signing the Senate version of Obama-care into law last year (it’s more like Lieberman-care) did him in, it looks too much like Romney-care.

[dforest]

I am just not feeling the pity for poor Mitt.

I am sick of this pity party attitude for politicians.

We are the ones who deserve pity for having to put up with their BS all the time.

[New Jersey Realist]

Please name ONE person from the state of Massachusetts that could be trusted.

[golf lover]

The Democrats are hoping and praying Romney will be the Pubies nominee. It will guarantee Barry’s second term.
Why can’t the Romney enthusiasts realize that if Romney couldn’t beat out that loser McCain for the nomination in the last election there’s no way he can beat Barry. Pretty simple to figure this out!

[andy58-in-nh]

Please name ONE person from the state of Massachusetts that could be trusted.

Howie Carr.

He'll tell you himself: "you can trust me; I'm not like the others". He's a great radio talk-show host and columnist who has an encyclopedic knowledge of corrupt Massachusetts politics and of the Boston Mafia, which is to say, of Democrats.