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[PaleoBob]

Romney is NOT the one. Sarah Palin is.

[Finny]

Irony appreciated.

[samtheman]

I don’t view Romney as much of a threat to Palin. The one I worry about is the Huckster. Because of the way the Republistupids do their primaries, the Huckster could win some early important rounds making things tougher for Sarah.

Romney has to spend so much money per vote that he’s not going to be much of a factor.

How much did he spend last time? How many votes did he get?

[EagleUSA]

— and citing support for it from both Ted Kennedy and the Heritage Foundation — Romney failed to tell viewers what was in the plan.
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Romney is clearly on the Marxist power wagon. Two reasons right here. One — he LIED and said the Heritage Foundation supports socialized medicine (in so many words). Second — he, like all libs, did not disclose ANYTHING about “his” plan, thus furthering the lie of transparency and hiding another Soylent Green horror story.

Hasn’t he already proved all this in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts??

[Finny]

The problem with Romney is that he is all for letting Democrats define the terms, and then negotiating.

I've seen others here on FR post that an average mid-20s-mid-30s kid who lives in Massachusetts, by sole virtue of being a live human being of legal age, now has to come up with a mandatory insurance fee of $300 a month to comply, or a regular family something like $2400 a month for "coverage" and the deductible is something like $2400. What, do they think people are made of money? Do they think a normal healthy human or young family needs that much forced "care"???

So a young adult who should be able to learn how to swim jumping into life's adventure, find his/her own way in the world, has already, just by virtue of being born, this monthly nut of $300 he/she has to meet right out of the box? It's challenging enough to meet the rent and groceries! Have these people ever actually lived out here?????

But those are the terms defined by Democrats as the "solution" to a problem that exists mainly as a result of government and its litigation, its quest for control.

And Romney is all set to negotiate. He's such a schmuck.

Do they have that little respect for human dignity? Well ... I guess they do if they seek to force tax payers, thee and me, to PAY CASH for the abortion of our fellow humans. That's the height of indignity and evil enabled by the likes of Romney and his ilk -- Arnold? Whitman? Crist? The ones that let Democrats define the terms, and then negotiate in the name of "Republican."

Romney disgusts me. (In case you didn't catch that! ;^)

[Edit35]

You’re right. Romney’s support and participation in enacting the Mass health plan was wrong and bungle-headed.

Does that make you obsessed Romney haters feel better?

He still was the only candidate who could have won in 2008.

Besides, there is no evidence Romney ever supported a nationalized universal health care plan.

[GoodDay]

Since when did the Heritage Foundation support socialized medicine in Massachusetts? Is there any evidence for that?

[SteelTrap]

Romney can bite me. I didn’t like him before and nothing that has happened since has changed my opinion. He is a Huckabee (aka Teh Huckster) that got his laws passed. And now he is scrambling to spin the outcome.

The problem Romney has is the same as with most of the public company CEO types. They are just as prone to anti-free market BS as any leftist. He is a giant va-jaj-jay.

I saw a CSPAN2 segment with the Chick-fil-A founder and current CEO (the founder’s son) and all I could do is wish there were about 10000 more like them.

I’ll search for a thread on that segment and if there isn’t one already up I’ll post it.

[BarnacleCenturion]

Dude, come back to earth. The country is being methodically destroyed by a muslim socialist and you’re worried about Romney? He’s gone. You’re wasting your time.

[jimfree]

For all: this thread is a great mechanism for describing the faults of Mitt Romney if you perceive them. Sticking them into discussions on Cap & Trade, Immigration, and your favorite pie recipe constitute fraud on this site. You make it an indoctrination rather than a discussion.

Cheers!
Jim

[TribalPrincess2U]

romney is a mcLame.

A mcLame without a Sarah this time.

Not even in the picture as far as I’m concerned.

[Diogenesis]

PROOF RomneyCARE is a Disaster (and Romney is utterly clueless)

“Small businesses bridle at health insurance hikes (Romneycare strangles Mass. businesses)
Bob Carroll, owner of a Billerica distributor of paint spraying equipment, recently got
some really bad news from Blue Cross-Blue Shield: His company’s health insurance rates are going up 47 percent in January.”

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“Republicans warn: Rationing medicine has already begun
But in a joint opinion piece called "Govt.-Run Health Care Isn't the Answer," published
in the online version of The Advocate, a leading homosexual magazine, Sen. Tom
Coburn, R-Okla., and GOProud's Christopher R. Barron warned the homosexual
community that the Ryan White CARE Act has already demonstrated how government-
run health care has introduced rationing and waiting lists and cost the lives of the people under its provisions.”

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“DEATH PANELS OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN MASSACHUSETTS”

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“President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the
possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission.”

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“You can’t reap these savings without limiting patients’ choices in some way," said Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess.”

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“State plan may place limits on patients’ hospital options( Mass. RomneyCare )”

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"Romney Visits Nebraska, Talks Health Care [where he defends Romneycare] “

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"Paying the Health Tax in Massachusetts [Romneycare]
Massachusetts requires every resident to have health insurance, and this
year, without informing us directly, the state had changed the rules in a way that made
our bare-bones policy no longer acceptable. Unless we ponied up for a pricier policy we
neither need nor want—or enrolled in a government-sponsored insurance plan—we
would have to pay $1,000 each year to the state.
How did we become outlaws? “

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"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
It was only a matter of time.
They're trying to manage the huge costs of the subsidized middle-class insurance program that is gradually swallowing the state budget.
The program provides low- or no-cost coverage to about 165,000 residents, or three-fifths of the newly insured, and is budgeted at $880 million for 2010, a 7.3% single-year increase that is likely to be optimistic.
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006."

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A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
"Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so. “

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Health care in Massachusetts: a warning for America [Romney brings Mass. to its knees]
The Bay State's mandatory insurance law is raising costs, limiting access, and lowering care.
Three years ago, Massachusetts adopted a plan requiring all residents to purchase health
insurance, with state subsidies for lower-income residents. But rather than creating a
utopia of high-quality affordable healthcare, the result has been the exact opposite –
skyrocketing costs, worsened access, and lower quality care."

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"‘Severe’ doc shortage seen hiking wait time
“The shortage is getting more severe”"

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“Health costs to rise again.( RomneyCare )
The state’s major health insurers plan to raise premiums by about 10 percent next year,
prompting many employers to reduce benefits and shift additional costs to workers.”

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“Nation’s ill-advised to follow Mass. plan [Health plan a failure]
September 17, 2009 The canary is dead.
Massachusetts, the model for the ObamaCare universal insurance plan, is the canary in
the health care coal mine. Yesterday, its obit appeared on the front page of both The Wall
Street Journal and The Boston Globe-Democrat “

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"Bay State Insurance Premiums Highest in Country - Boston Globe August 22, 2009
Massachusetts has the most expensive family health insurance premiums in the country,
according to a new analysis that highlights the state’s challenge in trying to rein in medical costs
40 percent higher than in 2003. Over the same period, premiums nationwide rose an average of 33 percent..."

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"Massachusetts: the laboratory for ObamaCare“

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"Massachusetts' Obama-like reforms increase health costs, wait times [RomneyCare]
Premiums are growing 21 to 46 percent faster than the national average"

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"Mass. Pushes Rationing to Control Universal Healthcare Costs (RomneyCare)
A 10-member Massachusetts state healthcare advisory board unanimously recommended
that the state begin rationing healthcare to keep the state’s marquee universal health care program afloat financially.”

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"1,000 cancer patients 'refused treatment'"

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"Massachusetts Universal Healthcare System Breaking Down Already
ERs in Massachusetts have not seen a downturn in visits. On the contrary, it seems that ER visits are actually on the upswing in the Bay State. In fact, in 2007 they were higher than the national average by 20 percent...”

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"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"

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"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood.
In Massachusetts's latest crisis,
They're trying to manage the huge costs of the subsidized middle-class insurance program that is gradually swallowing the state budget.
The program provides low- or no-cost coverage to about 165,000 residents, or three-fifths of the newly insured, and is budgeted at $880 million for 2010, a 7.3% single-year increase that is likely to be optimistic.
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006
Mr. Romney should have known better before signing on to this not-so-grand experiment, especially since the state's "free market" reforms that he boasts about have proven to be irrelevant when not fictional.
Only 21,000 people have used the "connector" that was supposed to link individuals to private insurers."

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A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
… fiscal troubles aplenty within Repubican Mitt Romney’s brainchild, Massachusetts’ “grand experiment” in “universal” health care."
"Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so.
Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide,
“RomneyCare” is threatening to bankrupt the state.“

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"Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry"

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"Romney’s mistreatments a sick man, as Gov. Mitt Romney meets a medical marijuana patient"