Will no one rid us of this meddlesome RINO?
Posted on 05/13/2011 8:26:44 AM PDT by markomalley
Republican Mitt Romney faces a deeply unpleasant choice in his all-but-announced bid for the White House. He signaled Thursday that he'd rather be charged with inspiring President Barack Obama's health care overhaul than with switching positions on a fourth big issue that's vital to conservative voters.
Either accusation, if it sticks, might deny him the GOP nomination. Conservatives despise Obama's 2010 health care law, especially the requirement that everyone obtain medical insurance. That same requirement is a cornerstone of the 2006 Massachusetts law that Romney championed as governor. Many advisers have urged Romney to apologize, say he made a big mistake and move on.
But voters of almost every stripe dislike political flip-floppers. And that puts Romney in a different jam.
As he shifted from Massachusetts governor to a Republican presidential hopeful, he reversed his stands on abortion laws, gay rights and gun laws. Flipping on a fourth big issue might undo him.
So Romney has decided to stick with a sometimes confusing, legalistic defense of the ground-breaking health law he enacted in Massachusetts. In a 29-minute talk and slide show Thursday in Michigan, he tried to make a political virtue of his campaign necessity.
"A lot of pundits around the nation are saying that I should just stand up and say this whole thing was a mistake, that it was just a bone-headed idea and I should just admit it," Romney told a room of college Republicans. "There's only one problem with that: It wouldn't be honest. I, in fact, did what I believe was right for the people of my state."
There's the rub for Romney. If mandated insurance coverage was right for the state he governed, how can it be so terribly wrong for the nation Obama oversees?
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The AP comes out favorably on Mitt . . .
Now that’s a game changer.
Romney is mentally unfit to be President (although he is a model of mental health compared to Pinhead Obama).
Romney cannot own up to the greatest mistake of his life, and remains defensive and stubborn.
(YUCK! and barf worthy)
He's a moderate democrat from Central Casting. We're not doing a TV show. Go change parties.
From page 128 of your AP translation handbook:
“We want to build up and promote a Republican who is certain to lose to 0bama”
Don’t know what the sneering is about. The GOP didn’t make defunding Obamacare a do or die priority in the 2011 budget continuing resolution that now lasts til October this year. The Tea Party didn’t insist on it, either.
And the GOP won’t insist on it for debt ceiling increase. The Tea Party won’t insist on it, either.
Nor will the GOP or the Tea Party insist on it for 2012’s budget.
Defunding Obamacare has left the radar screen. When the USSC refuses to undo it, as every politician in America hopes it will, the GOP and Tea Party both will acquiesce.
Romney is going to turn out aligned with the Tea Party on this.
This is the mainstream media pushing Romney for president because they know obama can make huge gains out of the health care issue.
Not enough bad things can happen to BOTH Rommney and Hucklebee after foisting that POS RINO McPain on the GOP and the country in 2007-2008. I HATE both of them w/ a White Hot HATE.
“Can’t be seen to flip-flop”
That dead RINO fish flopped and flipped on the beach long ago. Get out of the way you weasel and either provide full support for an actual conservative or crawl in a hole and stay out of sight. We need someone who will be agressive in restoring the Constitution and the Republic and not a self-serving idiot with executive hair.
Useless flailing.
The GOP will not go to the mat on Obamacare and shut down the government. The Tea Party won’t either. Neither cares that much.
They didn’t insist on it for the 2011 CR. They won’t insist on it for debt ceiling. They won’t require it as a no retreat position for 2012 budget. They don’t care.
Romney is going to be right on this, and the Tea Party will agree.
Keep pimping for Romney, Chuck! In view of your politics, you’re doing us a favor!
I support refusal to raise the debt ceiling without an immediate cut of 1.5 trillion dollars in spending, thereby removing any need to raise the debt ceiling.
The odds of this happening are zero.
The odds of the Tea Party refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless Obamacare is defunded are similarly zero.
The utter and absolute DEMANDS that Obamacare be defunded were lies on the part of FreeRepublic folks. They didn’t care. They are not refusing to support candidates who will not allow any budget through that does not defund it.
No one here really cared about Obamacare.
He's a moderate democrat from Central Casting. We're not doing a TV show. Go change parties.Exactly right.
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