[pgkdan]

In a presentation about his health-care reform plan delivered at the Heritage Foundation on Jan. 6, 2006, then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said that for his plan to work it would be necessary to first subsidize health insurance for a segment of the population not already receiving government health-care subsidies and then mandate that everyone in the state buy health insurance.

This was the exact position of the Heritage Foundation at the time he mede this presentation. Heritage was calling for mandates for years before Romney adopted their position. It's also the position that Newt and many, many other conservatives held, as they sw it as the only way to make a certain segment of teh population pay for at least a portion of their keep.

[SoConPubbie]

So that makes it right?

Or does it even make it conservative?

I know you are smart enough to think for yourself and not use silly games like an appeal to authority, especially when that authority is dead wrong on the issue.

If all of the conservative authorities started to all of a sudden support abortion, would you?

[SoConPubbie]

This was the exact position of the Heritage Foundation at the time he mede this presentation. Heritage was calling for mandates for years before Romney adopted their position. It's also the position that Newt and many, many other conservatives held, as they sw it as the only way to make a certain segment of teh population pay for at least a portion of their keep.

So that makes it right?

Or does it even make it conservative?

I know you are smart enough to think for yourself and not use silly games like an appeal to authority, especially when that authority is dead wrong on the issue.

If all of the conservative authorities started to all of a sudden support abortion, would you?