[Hoodat]

How does our candidate supporting any part of Obamacare work as a negative attack ad against us?

It diminishes our capacity to go negative against Obama. I can hear Obama on the campaign trail right now saying how even his Republican opponent supports parts of his health care plan.

Going back last year, tens of thousands of Americans marched on Washington to voice their unanimous opposition to government-run healthcare. I share in that opposition, regardless of whether it's Obama's health care plan, or whether it's Mitt Romney's or Newt Gingrich's. It doesn't make it OK simply because Newt Gingrich happens to be behind it.

[JediJones]

Yeah, I get that, but there are hundreds of pages of Obamacare left to criticize. Conservatives have gotten way off track thinking the individual mandate is the key problem with the law. It could easily be replaced with a tax, without fundamentally changing anything else about the law. Would that make the law good?

Not to mention, I hope we have other issues in mind to campaign on, because this one will be irrelevant before summer if the Supreme Court overturns it.

The federal government has to be involved in Obamacare if you want insurance to be sold over state lines, which Newt wants and I think many conservatives want as well. I want a health insurance plan that I can take with me no matter where in the country that I move. I also don’t think conservatives object to getting some of your tax money back if you buy health insurance.

[Utmost Certainty]

Going back last year, tens of thousands of Americans marched on Washington to voice their unanimous opposition to government-run healthcare. I share in that opposition, regardless of whether it's Obama's health care plan, or whether it's Mitt Romney's or Newt Gingrich's. It doesn't make it OK simply because Newt Gingrich happens to be behind it.

Individual mandate ≠ government-run healthcare. Obamacare is an infinitely more convoluted beast than just the individual mandate part.

Anyhow, Gingrich isn't supporting an individual mandate. And to the contrary, I'd say he's actually in an ideal position—having been part of think tanks and worked considerably on issues of health care reform years—to explain thoroughly and clearly to Americans why individual mandate approaches are unconstitutional and inefficacious, and why implementations like Obamacare are a 'cure' far worse than the disease.