Mitt’s backers: ‘RomneyCare’ overblown [DeMint defends Romney & his socialized medicine scheme]

The Hill ^ | March 17, 2011 | Michael O’Brien

[EternalVigilance]

Mitt Romney’s supporters on Capitol Hill are giving him political cover for the healthcare plan he signed into law as governor, even as his competitors for the GOP presidential nomination ramp up their attacks on “RomneyCare.”

Romney’s healthcare reform initiative in Massachusetts is viewed as one of his biggest political liabilities going into the Republican primary, due to its similarities to President Obama’s healthcare overhaul.

But leading conservatives, including supporters of Romney during his 2008 presidential run, argue that the Massachusetts plan isn’t a deal-breaker.

“One of the reasons I endorsed Romney [in 2008] is his attempts to make private health insurance available at affordable prices,” said Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.), a GOP kingmaker.

[EternalVigilance]

Sure. But you can be assured that it’s very bad. :-) Socialism always is.

[Theodore R.]

The reason Demint isn’t running for President is that he supports Myth, did so in 2008 too.

[rockinqsranch]

Jim DeMint should know quite well the path to lowering prices for healthcare, or just about anything for that matter is to get the government, especially the control-freak government of the entrenched Left the “H” out of the way.

Government has no business in business.

It’s sad the MSM, the Press is so tainted with the disease of Leftist politics anymore that they can’t be relied upon for the investigative journalism that was responsible to educate people with the truth.

[Buddygirl]

You bet it is, that my respect for DeMint is dropping rapidly. I can’t understand why he is doing this. Surely he is up to date on what is happening with the health care in Massachusetts! Blah!

[EternalVigilance]

Could be.

[rabscuttle385]

DeMint is defending Romney?

FUJD!

[Rome2000]

Oh yea, He just dropped off my list. I am shocked

By the time these freeloaders have been around DC long enough to be considered "Leaders", they are washingtonians first and foremost.

This POTUS primary will be the real test of the "Tea Party", all HELL is going to break loose if these country clubbers think they are going to shimmy their way into the nomination.

The Town Meetings against health care were just practice, Romneys going to have to run a lot quicker than Ceausescu did when he finally gets in front of the wrong crowd.

[Lakeshark]

I can read perfectly well, your dishonesty is obvious and very Clintonian.

[EternalVigilance]

I gave you the facts. Can’t do anything about the fact that you don’t know what you’re talking about and don’t care.

[Lakeshark]

You’re right, I don’t care. Your useless little party is a freaking joke, and you’re pretense that you’ve never benefited financially from them is too.

[EternalVigilance]

You’re just a malicious liar. You don’t know anything about it, and I don’t owe you any explanations.

[Diogenesis]

DeMint is finished. Finished.

Milt: “Never forget that (the untrustworthy statist, the RINO) DeMint,
supports me and (my carpetbagging fascist experiments,
TARP, IAG, Soros,) RomneyCARE, ObamaCARE, and my Death Panels.”

[Theodore R.]

I believe THE MYTH will sweep all the early contests as Gerald R. Ford, Jr., did in 1976, and there will be no Reagan to contest him in the spring.

[Theodore R.]

I believe it will be a virtually non-contested THE MYTH/DeMint ticket, and we will all come aboard only to live to regret doing so.

[Diogenesis]

Maybe you did not get the message.
No one is going "on board". Romney and his partner Soros
are the enemy and are not natural borne Americans.

Mitt Romney: "I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

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"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

[Gator113]

I flat can’t believe that you got away with this most disgusting post!!

I had been told by another FReeper that you have been suspended. I looked at your profile page and found this: “This account has been banned or suspended.Okay”

BUT, I am not sure that you have.

So, could you please help me out, pissant. Are you still here or can I celebrate your cyber passing?

[sport]

You sound jealouse.

[sport]

I won’t.

[rabscuttle385]

A sad statement on the condition of the U.S. Senate, the Republican Party, and what passes for "conservatism" these days if your best, your most conservative, is a Romney supporter and defender of socialized medicine.

Lakeshark, EV is right, and you are, as usual, a Republican Party hack.

As for DeMint, if he wants to defend Romneycare, he can join Sarah "Juanita" McPalin in RINO hell.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Who is this “we” ? There’s no way in creation I will support a ticket with that scumbag Socialist pathological liar leading it. Slick Willard is no more a Republican than Emperor Zero. The media and the elites are the only ones pimping Slick Willard’s candidacy, since they know he would rip the party apart and hand Zero a second term.