Romneycare, Bain Capital, 2012, and the Lost Opportunity to Assail Obamacare

Moreover, as a political argument, how will Romney be able to employ our most potent weapon in a way that won’t be perceived as hypocritical? Try to imagine a general election debate over healthcare between Romney and Obama:

Obama: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. People outside of the exchange will be unaffected by the changes. Further, Mr. Romney, we actually got the ideas of subsidized healthcare exchanges and the individual mandate from you. Weren’t they pretty successful in Massachusetts?”

Folks, we cannot allow the biggest issue of the election, Obamacare, be taken off the table by the nomination of a candidate who was the inspiration behind this insidious plan! The single issue that is an anathema to conservative philosophy and draws the starkest contrast with the opposition will be moot if Romney is the nominee. Moot Romney.

People should stop calling it Romneycare and call it for what it is Obamacare. My god, i can’t believe the nominee in waiting for the GOP was the architect for the monstrosity called Obamacare. America is at the Rubicon. The oligarchs of the political elites have shown their cards. Behold the brave new world!!!

"America is at the Rubicon. The oligarchs of the political elites have shown their cards. Behold the brave new world!!!" I fear you may be right. December 2012 brings a sense of foreboding for me. Obama is a lame duck president, a Romney presidency presents more of the same of his predecessor. Does the mask finally come off? Maybe those Mayans were right about something??? (Just kidding... maybe)

I guess Ben Franklin was right:

“When people find that they can vote themselves money from the treasury, that will herald the end of the republic.”

George Bernard Shaw of all people said: "When the government takes from Peter to give to Paul, he (the government) can rest assured of the support from Paul"

My theory is that the GOP establishment is willing to concede the election to Obama as long as they control the house and the senate. But it assumes that the tea party will fall in line and support the GOP initiatives (i.e Romney). But what if they stay home? Party affiliation has been at their lowest in generations and to presume that the tea party folks will "fall in line" like African Americans do for the democrats is presumptuous at best and demonstrates the fatal conceit of these supposed powebrokers in the GOP that they are not in tune with the zeitgeist of the American people. We may be witnessing the death of the GOP as we know it. What if the GOP lose the house and the senate with Romney? The economy may be sputtering but the narrative is controlled by a liberal elite and we will hear how good it is getting and blah blah blah. Four more yrs of Obama with a house and senate controlled by liberals will be the end of America as we know it.

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