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Huntsman, Pawlenty Mulled Health Care Mandates
Time ^ | 5/31/11 | Alex Altman

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 Romney’s top competitors — former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who hasn’t 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 he’s comfortable with requiring every Utahn to purchase health insurance. “I’m comfortable with a requirement,” Huntsman replies. “You can call it whatever you want, but at some point we’re 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 we’ll be in an environment with better prices, more options, more access and availability.”

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RINO's... Buh Bye
1 posted on 05/31/2011 5:51:16 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

This may be the best way yet to expose RINOS for what they are.


2 posted on 05/31/2011 5:53:00 PM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: Nachum

I’m about ready to draft Gov. Perry.....
The rest of our list is.....well....listless....


3 posted on 05/31/2011 6:01:04 PM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: Nachum

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.


4 posted on 05/31/2011 6:01:04 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Nachum
Here's another category worth watching for changes thereto: in the months ahead

2912 Presidential Hopefuls' Immigration Stances

5 posted on 05/31/2011 6:02:12 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: Nachum

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.


6 posted on 05/31/2011 6:04:14 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Nachum
The MSM is trying to tell us who to pick...again


7 posted on 05/31/2011 6:10:29 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Nachum

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.


8 posted on 05/31/2011 6:11:16 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: Venturer
The media is attempting to pull a McCain with Romney. The difference is, this time we have a few viable conservative alternatives.
9 posted on 05/31/2011 6:18:44 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Venturer
So let's say Romney gets the nomination, if Real Conservatives do not vote for him in the election than guess who's coming to Dinner- I dare say it is not a pretty picture
10 posted on 05/31/2011 6:48:05 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Nachum; basil

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.


11 posted on 05/31/2011 6:51:14 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Nachum

“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!


12 posted on 05/31/2011 7:03:49 PM PDT by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !When a majority of the American)
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To: funfan

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.


13 posted on 05/31/2011 7:05:09 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: hinckley buzzard

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.


14 posted on 05/31/2011 7:07:19 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Venturer
I think Obama is worse than Romney. I beleive Romney actually cares about our country. Obama on the other hand spends an awful lot of time apologizing for it and trying to turn us into a European country. I would take my chances with
Romney. Obama is not on the side of America
15 posted on 05/31/2011 8:08:32 PM PDT by funfan
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To: funfan

I think Romney like Obama loves himself more than his country.


16 posted on 05/31/2011 8:18:41 PM PDT by Venturer
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