Posted on 05/31/2011 5:51:13 PM PDT by Nachum
The conventional wisdom among the political punditry is that 2012 Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney will be hamstrung by the health-insurance plan he helped craft as governor of Massachusetts, which included a mandate to purchase insurance. That may not be true.
In conservative circles, the health-insurance mandate has become shorthand for government overreach. But while each GOP presidential hopeful has disavowed it on the campaign trial, in recent days two of Romneys top competitors former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who hasnt declared his candidacy, and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, whose Iowa barnstorming tour is well underway have faced questions about whether they expressed support for it during their tenures in office.
On Tuesday afternoon, the conservative blog VerumSerum posted a September 2007 clip in which Huntsman is asked by a reporter whether hes comfortable with requiring every Utahn to purchase health insurance. Im comfortable with a requirement, Huntsman replies. You can call it whatever you want, but at some point were going to have to get serious about how we deal with this issue, and that means there will have to be a multitude of different policies that are available in the marketplace. It means that it will be incumbent upon citizens to look more at responsibility, their own responsibility in terms of health and the choices that are made. It likely will mean that well be in an environment with better prices, more options, more access and availability.
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This may be the best way yet to expose RINOS for what they are.
I’m about ready to draft Gov. Perry.....
The rest of our list is.....well....listless....
The Media still calling Romney the front runner, He may be the front runner for all I know, but if he is the candidate the republicans put up he will also be runner up.
Real Conservatives will not vote for Mittens.
how many of these buffoons were being bought out by corporations that wanted to eliminate health costs from their stock financial reports?
we have come full circle, republicans are “protecting the individual” with rinos and democrats favoring corporate plantations.
Stick a fork in them. We don’t need another ‘next in line’ kind of candidate, or a warmed over repubican. We are beyond that. Palin or Ryan is the ticket, or combined.
So they MULLED them. So did the Heritage Foundation...are THEY a bunch of RINOs, too, for MULLING something?
Don’t get played by Time Magazine. They’re not real journalists over there....for God’s sake, Jay Carney, the current spokesboob for Hussein, worked for them.
“Frontrunner?” Looks like the MSM is trying to pick our candidate for us again ... How do I state my thoughts on this politely? Hmmm ... Nah,
Hey, MSM ... EAT SH*T, and DIE!
You are right it is not a pretty picture. If Romney gets elected, it’s not a pretty picture, The Diffrence between Romney and Obama is only skin color.
Might as well have one liberal as the other.
Hopefully we can get both houses of the Congress.
We do have some viable alternatives, but what frightens me is the New Hampshire primary’s.
It is so unfair that whoever wins in new hampshire has a head start on the rest and new Hampshire is not a Conservative State.
All primary’s should be on the same day.
I think Romney like Obama loves himself more than his country.
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