Gruber was Romney’s man before he was Obama’s man.
It is plenty relevant, but it is nothing new to those who reject 0care and have rejected it from the beginning. This is a matter of obtaining more stout proof of what was already known. Because people hostile to 0care, even after cursory research, realized that 0care was modeled after Rcare early in the game. There were plenty of admissions at the time. OK, now they have more sound (in more ways than one) evidence that what they already hated is not only a bad deal for them, not only was sold to them on a lie, but was sold to them on an even bigger bigger bigger lie than they already knew.
There’s little question in my mind that the underlying rejection of 0care automatically made Romney an impossible-to-elect candidate. Over and above his many other defects.