Posted on 11/22/2011 6:31:59 AM PST by GlockThe Vote
Romney: "No, I just know it's the nature of politics. People trying to cast their opponent in a less than favorable light. And I know that health care is one of those issues. The Massachusetts healthcare plan. But don't forget, this healthcare plan was something we learned about from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Even Newt Gingrich supported the idea of an individual mandate, insisting on personal responsibility. Now, what we did isn't perfect. Some parts of it worked, some didn't, some things I change. But it's not like it was a liberal idea. It was a conservative concept. I'm proud of the fact we did something that worked with our state consistent with the Tenth amendment. I'm also proud of the fact that I'm out there saying I'll get rid of ObamaCare. I know why it's bad. I know how it's different than what we did and why it needs to be taken off the books of the US -- of the entire nation."
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Not only will I NOT vote for Commie Romney, I will ACTIVELY campaign AGAINST him.
Shove it up your smelly Obama, Willard.
And you may as well follow it also.
At least there, you’ll be the least foul (almost) piece of matter.
Watch out, lest some here call you an “Obama Lover.”
Good thing JimRob, won’t.
In favor of whom? A write-in?
The individual mandate is A CONSERVATIVE POSITION?????????
F U M R~!!!!
Individual responsibility is a conservative position but FORCING PEOPLE To buy insurance to enforce personal responsibility at the end of a gun is NOT!!!
now THATS funny.....I had some kind of brilliant political comment ready to go, but I can’t even remember it now. Fabulous picture!
We need to defeat romney at all costs - he is obama-lite.
Bad ideas AND bad grammar. What a loser.
Unfortunately, all there were were platitudes and shallow slogans - nothing substantive.
Even now he's leaving all his options open, when the proper course has never been clearer. Should be a huge red flag to conservative with a brain.
How are government mandates conservative ideas?
Romney is not only obama-lite - he is politically tone deaf.
F this - we need to get rid of Romney - he is Obama.
Newt and willard love the man date.
He scares the living day lights out of me.
I am down to Ron Paul, Bachmann, and Newt in third.
Romney and Obama and all the nannystaters would have got much less guff for their plan if they’d simply given a tax credit to those with insurance, as, in a way, people already get if it is employer-provided insurance. (If they have no income for the credit to work against, then we’re providing their coverage anyway.)
But no, like the dog with the bone looking at his reflection in the water, the nannystater doesn’t have the patience to legislate morality through credits that if not countered put a dent in tax collection.
Something’s really screwed up if one’s health care status requires the hiring of thousands more IRS agents.
The true conservative position should be if you knowingly fail to plan for a lethal illnes you should pay for that decision with your life. the same as if you decide to climb Mt Everest and fail because you had no idea how to climb a mountain. You made a stupid decision and it cost you. Problem is there is no way this country would let that happen so we end up bailing these people out and they pay nothing for their stupidity.
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