There are only a few candidates that I will not vote for any reason in the general election. Romney is one of them. His refusal to admit Romneycare was a stupid idea makes me believe he will not sign onto a repeal of Obamacare, regardless of what he says now. In fact, I suspect the minute he gets the nomination, he’ll start hedging, edging towards the mushy middle... “oh Obamacare has some good points, can’t throw out the baby with the bathwater”.
As far as the world ending if Obama wins again, I disagree. I believe we’d be in the exact same place right now if RINO John McCain had won. For one thing, we would have had full-blown amnesty by now, as that was one of McCain’s pet projects. Backed enthusiastically by the RINOs in Congress, it would have passed easily. Also, while we would not have had Obamacare, we probably would have gotten some further incremental healthcare law, which would be much harder to eliminate than Obamacare. At present, we have a pretty good chance of tossing out Obamacare altogether. Either the Supreme Court tosses it, or we get a conservative President and take the Senate in 2012, and toss it that way.
There may not have been the huge and reckless spending which Obama and the Dems have authored, but money would have been spent, there’s no doubt about that. McCain was an enthusiastic bailout backer. There would be no Tea Party, or if there was a Tea Party, it certainly wouldn’t be as large or as powerful as it is today. Almost certainly you would still have Speaker Nancy Pelosi today, if John McCain was President. For me, no more votes for RINOs, because they’re just as bad as Democrats.
You are on to something here. This has also been troubling me.
Romney tries to cloak this in the 10th Amendment. He would be better off admitting that Romneycare was an idea that didn't work, and should be repealed, just like he "says" he'll do to Obamacare.