Also to Jim, I also had a coworker the other day say the same! It's odd to me how many people think this and yet he is leading in the polls for the GOP nomination. Did a bunch of Libs register as Republican or something?
Posted on 01/28/2012 3:18:49 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Newt commits to firing every czar on day one. Romney is already lining up his army of czar’s.
In many ways, Romney is nothing more than a white Obama.
Well, I guess Obama faces East when he prays, while Romney dreams of being a god on his planet Kolob.
They’re both nuts.
*snip*
RomneyCare has metastasized into yet another big-government cancer. Barack Obama wasn’t being entirely disingenuous when he cited RomneyCare as his model for Washington-run health care.
Lately, some Romney apologists have suggested that RomneyCare, as first conceived by the former Massachusetts governor, had its virtues. Say the apologists, the trouble with RomneyCare came when now-Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and the big spenders and government-growers in the state legislature got their hooks into the program.
This only shows what any good conservative knows about an entitlement, no matter how limited in intention. Liberal politicians — and more than some establishment Republicans — will find ways to grow entitlements to their advantage. Does anyone really think Social Security, which is heading for crisis, would be a hot topic if it had stayed a meager pension supplement as started by FDR in the 1930s?
What businessman-turned-Governor Mitt Romney gave to Deval Patrick and Massachusetts’ liberal legislators with RomneyCare was an exploitable opportunity — an opportunity to take Romney’s supposed “conservative” health care program and blow a hole in it bigger than the hole that sank the Titanic. (RomneyCare was more ambitious to start with than apologists claim, anyway.)
The fact is that government entitlements, however modestly begun, are going to follow the iron law of politicians’ self-interest. Growing government, expanding and increasing bennies, and shoveling contracts to special interests are the tickets to politicians’ job security — or so has been the case in Washington and plenty of state capitals for too many decades.
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Not incidentally, for all Mitt Romney’s boasting about not raising taxes in Massachusetts, RomneyCare, in fact, has upped taxpayer bills in two important ways. As the Wall Street Journal reported last year:
While Massachusetts’ uninsured rate has dropped to around 3%, 68% of the newly insured since 2006 receive coverage that is heavily or completely subsidized by taxpayers. While Mr. Romney insisted that everyone should pay something for coverage, that is not the way his plan has turned out. More than half of the 408,000 newly insured residents pay nothing, according to a February 2010 report by the Massachusetts Health Connector, the state’s insurance exchange. [Italics added]
And this tidbit from the same Wall Street Journal article:
Mr. Romney’s promise that getting everyone covered would force costs down also is far from being realized. One third of state residents polled by Harvard researchers in a study published in “Health Affairs” in 2008 said that their health costs had gone up as a result of the 2006 reforms. A typical family of four today faces total annual health costs of nearly $13,788, the highest in the country. Per capita spending is 27% higher than the national average. [Italics added.]
Yet for all of RomneyCare’s evident failure, businessman Romney has stubbornly continued to defend the program. A smart businessman — and a smarter politician — would have acknowledged RomneyCare’s failure, claimed to have learned lessons, cut his losses, and moved on.
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What’s confounding is that, if as stated now that Gov. Deval Patrick, lib and BHO bud, took advantage of the opening Romneycare gave him as crook libs do, why isn’t Romney defending himself and saying that to describe the healthcare financial mess in MA now?
That’s totally vacant, misleading and disingenuous on the reality .. and purposeful.
He can honestly say he’s immediately gonna do an EO to
eliminate Obamacare, ‘cause he’ll just replace it with his
schemes. Transparent as a window ...
Gotta side with ya there HG...The mediots have totally taken off the table that it is IMPOSED on citizens.
The assholes foisting ***care (gov't, bambi, romney-style, state..etc..) are NOT going to be in the same system we will have to deal with. This is all pure socialism and will ignite real "class warfare".
Newt's my choice, but the reality is that we are likely stuck with Romney.
Meaning, we have the choice between Obama, or a paler version of Obama.
What happened to this country.
Guess Bondi’s going for a cabinet position. Or at least an ambassadorship. Very sad.
Buuuump!
How much money are these FL “conservative” politicos being paid, anyway??? Allen West must be feeling like the Lone Ranger right now.
Of COURSE Romney and his people don’t care about our country - if they did, they’d be conservative!
Newt needs to hit Romney harder on the issues and his record as it relates to them. I hope he has the resources because Romney and his powerful backers are really fighting dirty. If only Santorum didn’t needlessly continue to siphon off votes when he doesn’t have a chance. Rick Perry is a patriot; Rick Santorum is just selfish.
Just connecting the dots and keeping up with Bimbo Bondi. She did it again.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2839569/posts?page=96#96
One of my colleagues at work is a huge Obama supporter said he really wouldn’t have a problem if Mitt became president because Mitt is liberal and not much different from Obama.
Same way I feel about him. Just makes me wonder why the other GOP candidates don’t hit him with the figures.
BUMP
Romney does not deserve to recieve the vote of one single conservative American
More liberalism to come folks. More to come.
This is called Cleaning Off The Fan. The defense that Romney never intended for this plan to go national is not a strong one.
I will tell you what’s going on - the Republican Party is seeing an opportunity just like the Democratic Party exploited in 2008: they see a chance to grab control of Congress and the White House.
Exit polls in Ohio indicated that Romney is getting moderates and dissatisfied Democrats, liberals who will not vote for a do-over by BHO2.
I suspect that is why the GOPe have been promoting Romney. As he was a liberal governing Massachusetts, he can attract liberal leaning independents and liberal Democrats away from BHO2. They are dazzled by visions of a ‘slam dunk’ election.
Very wealthy people in this nation are massivley supporting Romney. They have fear, real and justified fear, that the Marxist BHO2 will seize all property and redistribute wealth in this country. That is why Romne’s war chest is flush with cash donations.
The GOPe despise Conservatives and the Tea Party. But we see what Romney really is - a self-professed progressive, a classic example of a fascist - and will not support him come November IF he is the nominee.
Choosing between a communist and fascist is not a choice, it is more like a death sentence.
Santorum hammered Romney AFTER the fact. He still endorsed him for president and was fully aware of Romneycare.
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