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GOP debate: Romney: Healthcare ‘not worth getting angry about’
The Hill ^ | January 26, 2012 | Joshua Altman

Posted on 01/27/2012 3:44:21 AM PST by w4women

Under attack for his healthcare plan in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney tried to downplay the issue.

Responding to attacks over his healthcare plan in Massachusetts, former Gov. Mitt Romney said the plan is “not worth getting angry about” in Thursday’s Republican debate.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (Penn.) hit Romney over a plan that has many similarities to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, often refered to by Republicans as "Obamacare."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: bishopromney; healthcare; romney; romney2decide4u; romney2ruleu; romney4deathpanels; romney4obama; romneycare; romneycare4u; romneydeathpanels
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

I think you’re right. Just once, I’d like to see the conservative voters united behind a real conservative candidate.


21 posted on 01/27/2012 4:34:51 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: Lady Lucky
Do you have his web site or email address.
22 posted on 01/27/2012 4:35:49 AM PST by Christie at the beach
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To: samson1097

Wrong. Santorum was being passionate about it and reflected how a majority of Americans feel about Obamacare and it’s mandate.

Romney is totally unable, and downright incapable, of showing passion about anything. That is what makes him so unlikable.

Romney just says what he thinks you want to hear and he is totally unconvincing that her cares or means anything he says.


23 posted on 01/27/2012 4:41:47 AM PST by dforest
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To: Christie at the beach

http://www.ricksantorum.com/contact-us

Rick Santorum for President

PO Box 37
Verona, PA 15147
888.321.6675 [also 603-836-5941]
Info@RickSantorum.com

For Press Inquires, please contact:
Matt Beynon
Matt@RickSantorum.com

In Florida:

1680 Fruitville Road
Suite 102
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Fax: 484.229.0062
teamflorida@ricksantorum.com

For other states, maybe the state name followed by @ricksantorum.com would work, but better google that first.


24 posted on 01/27/2012 4:50:10 AM PST by Lady Lucky (A tea party in name only is worse than no tea party at all.)
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To: w4women
One of the things I find most disturbing about Romney is his fake "calm" voice , when his demeanor screams more-hateful-than-sh@t..looking like an underlying closet explosive disorder.

The fact that he continuously accuses his opponents of "anger" is a telltale sign that Romney is the one who gets angry all the time and is just faking it for the camera.

I've worried about his family..he looks like a classic time-bomb type guy.

When he accuses someone of getting angry, he is projecting on others..that is why it seems odd. What a piece of work...

25 posted on 01/27/2012 4:56:00 AM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: w4women

Santorum absolutely and completely destroyed Romney on healthcare last night. I am not a Santorum supporter, but I am thankfull he was at the debate last night to do real damage to Romney.


26 posted on 01/27/2012 5:24:51 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Go Newt!)
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To: cricket

I won’t give Drudge the hits. Rather never click on his site again.


27 posted on 01/27/2012 5:52:08 AM PST by I_be_tc
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To: w4women

He will be THE biggest defender of ObamaCare if he gets the nomination. What a joke our party has become. Nominating the author of socialized medicine… excuse me while I puke.


28 posted on 01/27/2012 5:53:20 AM PST by Lady4Liberty (Watch Romney endorse Obama's radical liberal agenda: http://youtu.be/i1fThdWagJ4)
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To: Earthdweller

He is also very Obama-like in that he blames everyone else when confronted about something (his blind trust administrator, his Super Pac, etc.). It was so bad last night that even David Gergen called him out on it.


29 posted on 01/27/2012 6:08:39 AM PST by MissMagnolia (Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
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To: w4women

If you aren’t angry about losing your freedom, what does make you angry Mr Robot?

Pray for America


30 posted on 01/27/2012 6:14:37 AM PST by bray (More Batting Practice for the Bambino)
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To: fortheDeclaration

“We were so angry about it, the GOP retook the House!”

The GOP retook the house not only because of Obamacare, but also to preserve Medicare, which is equally unaffordable, and unfair, and should equally ruffle the feathers of any freedom-minded individual, unless they are on medicare or some other government-funded/subsidized health care system.


31 posted on 01/27/2012 6:20:32 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: MissMagnolia
Yep..he just seems to take credit for things he doesn't really know about because someone else is doing it for him. I'll bet someone else “saved” the Olympics" for him as well.

He's a silver spoon, limousine liberal, thinly veiled with an "R", all up in the clouds. In addition, he will be throwing temper tantrums to get his way once the cameras are gone and he's "gotcha".

That is how I see him.

Don't need him..don't want him

32 posted on 01/27/2012 6:22:43 AM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: w4women

“Gov. Mitt Romney said the plan is “not worth getting angry about”

Yeah, who cares about individual liberty and freedom. I am working hard to ensure that he would not get the nomination, however if he did win it I was willing to hold my nose and cast an ABO vote. I would have been willing to do that with the hope that a conservative congress would repeal Obamacare and then Romney would sign it.

Given this comment and the comments of Coleman, I now know differently. Romney just lost my vote, god forbid he wins the nomination.


33 posted on 01/27/2012 6:29:29 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: samson1097

That is exactly the way I took it. Romney was NOT saying HEALTHCARE was not worth getting angry about, he was cautioning Santorum to calm down and be rational. Santorum has had a great difficulty understanding federalism — the difference between the powers of states vs. the powers of the federal government. Santorum’s explanation of Romneycare was becoming irrational. Romeny just wanted him to calm down and have a rational discussion.


34 posted on 01/27/2012 6:32:35 AM PST by JosephZ
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To: Solson

I heard it said that Romney has a new debate coach. I’m not sure his new aggressive debating style will work as well with Obama as with Newt. Romney went for knockout punches at Newt on a day when establishment Republicans unleashed a barrage of attacks against Newt, but Obama will have the protection of the presidency and the media. Anything seen as harsh treatment by Romney will redound to Obama’s favor.


35 posted on 01/27/2012 6:40:52 AM PST by carola
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To: Happy Rain
It's worth going to war "about." That's the grave danger the Statists, particularly those so deep in over their heads as the former Massachusetts governor appears to be, apparently cannot grasp.

The line was meant to shut down Santorum, almost certainly stashed away for that purpose, but it fell flat. Rick wasn't angry, he was righteously indignant, and for the right reasons.

I think Santorum hit his stride last night.

36 posted on 01/27/2012 6:43:41 AM PST by Prospero
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To: I_be_tc
So ok; this poll shown on the site that gets the most hits per day/week/month of ANY site; and so has influence per it's outcome.

Personally; would stuff my pride; and vote for Newt; no matter what. But hey; it's a choice. And of course, I did vote - and for Newt.

37 posted on 01/27/2012 7:24:09 AM PST by cricket (obamabegone;. . .Newt CAN make it happen.)
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

>Santorum is going somewhere alright.. back home to Virginia<

So much for living in PA. This makes me sick. ANOTHER candidate who claims residency in the Old Dominion who was incapable of getting on the ballot for our primary.

So, Rick, your “fellow Virginians”, who would have LOVED the chance to have voted for you or for Newt, are now stuck with Mittens or Ron Paul, period. Gee, thanks for nothing.


38 posted on 01/27/2012 10:59:52 AM PST by Darnright ("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: RFEngineer

Very few people were riled up about Medicare ‘cuts’, they were angry about ObamaCare which they understood was an assault on individual liberty.


39 posted on 01/27/2012 12:15:49 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Burke)
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To: fortheDeclaration

I was hopeing Rick would have responded with:
“tell that to all the folks at the town hall meetings in 2009,10”


40 posted on 01/27/2012 12:18:39 PM PST by NoDRodee (U>S>M>C)
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