Agreed. I would also argue that we have to start at ground level and elect Conservatives at both the level of local government and as members of the Republican party infrastructure. As appealing as a true Consertive party sounds, I see the transformation of the GOP-E to the GOP-Conservatives as the path to a Conservative Legislature.
Given that Mittens is the lesser of the two evils and the darling of the gop-E, do you think that the Tea Party wing, if we get enough numbers, will serve to keep him on the straight & narrow path of Conservatism?
This permits Romney to campaign full-throttle against Obamacare as a monster tax as well as monster statism. It frees him of the albatross of RomneyCare.
I’m guessing he’s smart enough to see that.
Could he campaign one way and then govern the other (not try to repeal Obamacare once he’s elected)? Perhaps. Is he that stupid? Perhaps. But somehow running Bain Capital and that level of stupidity don’t seem reconcilable.
And if Boehner gets some balls from this—if they seize the momentum and vote to repeal now, before the election (the Senate will block it, of course), it will establish a precedent that Boehner might have to follow in the new Congress.
Maybe.
Had SCOTUS simply overturned it all on its own, the eeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvviiiiiiiiiiiilllllllllll Scotus would be the focus today and for the rest of the campaign. We’d get a mixed Congress and 2/3 of Obamacare would survive, under different labels. Obama said he expected it to take ten years to get to Single Payer. SCOTUS overturning Obamacare would have actually kept him on track to that goal. Now we have a chance to derail him. A chance.