Mitt Romney Interviewed by Chris Wallace (A disaster?)

RightPundit ^ | Sunday March 7, 2010 | Arriba

[Bigtigermike]

I watched the Mitt Romney interview on Fox News Watch with Chris Wallace this morning. I actually watched twice, I was stunned. What a debacle! Apparently, this was his opening gambit in his 2012 Presidential campaign, since he has written a book. Wallace, by far the most skilled of the talking head interviewers, pressed Romney on his two primary claims: that Obama has spent his first year apologizing for being an American, and that his health care plan is awful.

Romney was unable to delineate any major differences between the plan he developed in Massachusetts and Obama’s, except that the latter is a national policy, whereas Romney’s just applied to one state. He claimed that insurance companies bear no responsibility for rising health care costs, and then said that when insurance companies act ‘badly’, actions should be taken against them, but couldn’t clarify what he meant. When he tried to say a difference was that the Massachusetts plan didn’t have a public option, Wallace nearly laughed out loud. I don’t know if Romney thought that Wallace would give him a free ride, since it was on Fox. If he did think that, he might have wanted to watch the show once in awhile or at least prepare.

I readily admit that he is the presumptive nominee. Wall Street adores him. My guess is that if he gets the nomination, it would be a debacle. Name one Bible Belt state that would support him – perhaps Mississippi. He will bring down a number of Republican House seats in this region. He didn’t say anything that I thought was believable in the last campaign. I had made a bet with a friend that if he and HRC won their respective nominations, we could set up lie detectors on both of them, and make a drinking game out of it. But that’s beside the point. Instead of just foisting another nominee upon the American public, it might be worth the party’s time to actually try to figure out who the voters would support. For his part Romney might try being honest, and see how Americans like actually knowing what he would do. But I sort of think he doesn’t even know what he believes any more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgEIpEQclJQ&feature=youtube_gdata

[grey_whiskers]

You're dreaming.

[LeGrande]

Who do we have to run in 2012? Anyone not actively raising funds and organizing right now can’t win.

Is Palin it?

Does the Tea Party have anyone?

Maybe it is for the best. If Obummercare passes it probably doesn’t matter anymore.

[Arizona Carolyn]

It was a huge debacle, I was speechless with what I heard, especially when Romney BRAGGED MA only pays 50% and the Feds (US) pays the rest of the cost.. how nice for the people of MA that we in Arizona help cover their health care expenses. /s

[hinckley buzzard]

Romney said Massachusetts would be even more expensive if they had not roped the young healthy people into the system with the individual mandate.

So whatever else romney care has or has not in common with bamacare, it has the prime poison pill firmly imbedded in it. The individual mandate, to my mind would be justification for organized resistance. If the rat-bastards can make you do that they can make you do anything. If Massachusetts was still American, it would be burning by now.

[Diogenesis]

"I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Backstabber Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

versus
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

---

I'm very clear I think, to the people across the Commonwealth
my "R" didn't stand so much for Republican as it does for reform."
(Flip-flop chameleon Mitt Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

versus
"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
 which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."
--  President Ronald Reagan

[Bigtigermike]

Thing will naturally start to shake out after the 2010 mid-terms.....Don’t count out Palin, not because I have some blind faith in her but because her own political enemies in Alaska said that people should never underestimate her abilities and that she thrives when people take her for granted, I trust the people who have lost or suffered harm from her politically more than some pundit.

[techno]

Romney is NOT the presumptive nominee by a long shot. That’s like saying the NO Saints had no chance of winning the SB.

Sarah Palin is definitely a major contender. No one who is intellectually honest could claim that Mitt has the field to himself.

Until further notice, this is a two person contest. At the moment, either could win the GOP nomination

[Arizona Carolyn]

Rudy also was the most fiscally conservative of the 2008 pack.

[Diogenesis]

Mitt RomneyCARE - For When the GOP Really, Really Must Lose
and pull Defeat from the Jaws of Certain Victory

RESULTS – Feb. 2010 Early Freerepublic.com straw vote FOR GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
Governor Palin was the overwhelming choice of freepers who voted!
Palin - 102 votes - THE WINNER
None Of The Above - 12 votes
Barbour - 10 votes
Hunter - 8 votes
Demint - 7 votes
Pence - 3 votes
Ryan - 3 votes
Jindal - 2 votes
Jeb Bush - 2 votes
Liz Cheney - 2 votes
Mitch Daniels - 2 votes
Newt Gingrich - 2 votes
Thune, Gary Johnson, Joe Wilson, Scott Brown and rick Perry all got a vote.
No Votes for Mitt RomneyCARE or Ron Paul or Huckabee .... 0 votes (none, zed, nada, doughnut, oh-no) “

[hinckley buzzard]

Romney BRAGGED MA only pays 50% and the Feds (US) pays the rest of the cost..

Unfreakingbelievable. Don't bother with a fork. Put a stake in the MF*er.

[Bigtigermike]

All I know is this in 2012: there is and will be a large segment of conservatives and republicans voting with their ‘HEART’ not their ‘HEAD’ in the GOP primaries, this might spell disaster for someone like Mitt, no matter how ‘presidential’ he may appear to be.

Whoever win the hearts of the people will run against Obama.

[Soul Seeker]

The elite in D.C. should understand we won’t cover for Mitt anymore then we did McCain. I certainly won’t persuade voters to choose him. And unlike last time, adding a conservative VP won’t cut it this time.

[DTogo]

RomneyCare is not ObamaCare, much like a BJ in the Oval Office is not sex.

[LeGrande]

Until further notice, this is a two person contest. At the moment, either could win the GOP nomination

Palin or Romney? That's like tweedle dee or tweedle dum. I pray you are wrong (and I am an atheist).

Maybe I should buy that sailboat I have been looking at.

[WOSG]

There are a few disqaulifiers there, one disqualifier is, if you ran in 2008, you couldnt beat the worst GOP nominee since Dewey... so no retreads. here’s the shortlist:

Palin -
Barbour -
Demint -
Pence -
Jindal -
Mitch Daniels -
Thune

[FrankR]

"...her libertarian streak is showing a bit loud..."

Gosh, I must have missed that one; what has she done or said for you to make that assumption?

[SoCalPol]

Where were you last night, on one of the Mitt threads some one made a comment about his hands and I was expecting your pic of Mitt in the rubber gloves
Next time.

[Bigtigermike]

I would be happy with that group battling it out in the Primaries, the only problem is that Sarah already has a large following and ability to fundraise tons of money out of that group; it would need to be an outstanding separation by any one of those guys to clearly seize control

[Malesherbes]

Someone recently asked, “What is the difference between Greece and Britain?” And the answer was, “One year.” By 2012, I think we are going to be in deeper doo doo than we are now, and Comandante Zero will be finished.

I don’t know who the Republican candidate will be, but it won’t be Romney.

[LeGrande]

I could certainly live with Palin as President. My question though is she the best we have?

Palin supported TARP, and continues to support McCain. With obviously poor judgment like that, I just don’t get a warm fuzzy feeling if you know what I mean.