Posted on 09/09/2012 7:28:36 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Edited on 09/09/2012 7:33:01 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has called for scrapping President Barack Obama's 2010 U.S. healthcare law, said in remarks aired on Sunday that he likes key parts of "Obamacare" despite his party's loathing of it and wants to retain them.
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YES, it is.
I find it humorous that the phrase "not reliable" would be used in a thread quoting Mitt Romney.
I could find quotes of Mitt Romney where he supports BOTH sides of almost every MAJOR issue.
I'm not going to go searching because I want Obama to lose. I am an ABO but PLEASE do not insult my intelligence and the intelligence of other Freepers.
The opposition did not just invent the term "etch a sketch" to describe Mitt Romney. They caught it as it was flung from Romney's own campaign.
You’re a lying moron...good riddance, buffoon
As someone who is chronically ill, that’s one of the more worrying parts of Obamacare. Will doctors not want to take me on because I’ll lower their stats? Will doctors drop me if I’m difficult and don’t exercise enough and don’t eat exactly as I’m instructed to? I shouldn’t have to even ask that question. This is why I hate socialized medicine. Maybe it makes fiscal sense, but I don’t think it does; I think it will end in the hardest patients having difficulty finding doctors, which will be more costly in the end.
The two specific parts Romney’s talking about keeping with his new plan are the under-26ers and the pre-existing conditions, because those are the biggest emotional ploys out of the whole thing that journalists can come up with. It’s not like he could have answered any other way.
You have another source? I don't believe ANYTHING from MSNBC.
If Mitt Romney said he will keep parts of ObamaCare, he was pandering to the left just like he did when he said he thought gays should be allowed in the Boys Scouts or when he said he never supported Reagan/Bush and would never try to go back to the Reagan/Bush years and like he did when he said he supports affirmative action.
Obviously Obama supporting MSNBC is NOT going to publish Romney's words where he says he will keep part of ObamaCare because the narrative at MSNBC is that "far right winger Romney" wants to take away all of ObamaCare, Woman's health, contraceptives and kill medicare.
Got another link?
A Progressive is as a Progressive does!
Another excellent reason why I’m voting for Sarah 2012!
The rest of you can go enjoy your collectivism the Founding Fathers hated with a passion by voting for Romney.
MR. ROMNEY: Well, of course not. I say we're going to replace Obamacare. And I'm replacing it with my own plan. And, you know, even in Massachusetts where I was governor, our plan there deals with pre-existing conditions and with young people. Everybody…
GREGORY: So you'd keep that part of the federal plan?
MR. ROMNEY: Well, I'm not getting rid of all of healthcare reform.
Doesn't use the term "Obamacare" but you'd have to be incredibly dense or partisan not to understand what he says here. He has no intention of removing it all nor does he stipulate he'd stop at keeping only the three examples he gave.
I personally think he and the republicans want to use it as a rallying cry for their elections. The way they have abortion. I don't believe they are serious about removing either laws. Which is why I refuse to be dragged into supporting another liberal statist on the Republican ticket. Obama's marginally worse. Well isn't that precious. They've trotted out that damn line for decades as both parties find themselves culpable for it progressively being worse by the year. The Republicans look down upon my beliefs and principles just as the democrats do, it's just that the Democrats feel free to be open now that half of their base is as morally bankrupt as they are. Let Romney and co. go find people like them and see if they can cobble together enought for a majority. I'm staying out of the race since both disgust me.
Thanks in advance.
Mitt Romney knows exactly what he is saying at all times, he is an exceptionally careful speaker and has been trained for that from at least his teens.
That quote has been addressed in this thread multiple times. Try to keep up.
RE: It is the complete transcript. It’s your job to find one quoting him as saying “I want to keep parts of Obamacare.”
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Video: Mitt Romney (in his own words): “Will keep parts of Obamacare”
(Found some other interviews he did today where he said the same thing)
You can watch the clip of Meet the Press in question and hear it. The New York Post has it if you google it.
But, he does say “I don’t want to get rid of all healthcare reform” and that translates to “I don’t want to get rid of all of Obamacare.” So, he did say it, just not explicitly. It’s just a matter of semantics. Before it was called Obamacare, it was “healthcare reform.” Romney’s being shrewd; no one can accuse him of failing as a politician.
Free Republic is overrun with trolls and their enablers.
Video: Mitt Romney (in his own words): “Will keep parts of Obamacare”
FAIL
He didn't say it in this interview. You're a bald faced liar...as is Newsmax and the poster of this video.
I realize this and agree with you. But here are my thoughts:
1. An economic collapse is a certainty. The EBT card crew will have to tighten the belt and become normal humans, or... riot and be killed? or ? So that problem will be the same no matter what. As one of my old taglines used to say “We have to go through hell to get out of hell”.
2. IMHO the tide is turning. More and more rational people (there ARE rational people) are getting wised up to the progressive crap sandwich and are SICK AND TIRED of tolerating the intolerable. Which includes fag nazis, illegals, everyone and their uncle living off of Uncle (ie tax payers), marxist garbage, femini-nazism, and the standard that all politicians are corrupt slimebag whores.
So, unless Rombag quits before the elections, we are stuck with two bad choices. BUT DBA 0bama is worse because we will be instantly hurtled into some kind of civil war. With Rombag, we get a bit of time before the killing fields start, to turn our country around.
It will turn around. But I prefer not to have the marxist/Ayers killing fields.
Re: He didn’t say it in this interview. You’re a bald faced liar...as is Newsmax and the poster of this video.
Video: Mitt Romney (in his own words): “Will keep parts of Obamacare”
I’m not a troll. And I don’t vote Progressive.
The Republicans had their own versions of "healthcare reform" during the time that Obamacare was enacted. They offered one as legislation and the Dems refused to consider it as an option, then they forced Obamacare through against the wishes of the American people.
http://www.gop.gov/blog/10/02/22/where-is-the-republican-health
Claiming that Romney said he wants to keep parts of Obamacare based on this David Gregory interview is equivalent to talking out of one's ass. Like Newsmax, constantly.
Good way for him to lose the election by splitting with a third party candidate!
I’ll just let the other Freepers judge for themselves. Romney did indeed say he will keep parts of ObamaCare in the video I posted. “Healthcare Reform Law” is the legal term for ObamaCare...
He doesn't utter the words "healthcare reform law" in this interview. He says "healthcare reform," which is a term signifying any number of possible measures to reform the healthcare system, including the one offered by the GOP in 2010.
Some people just have to lie. You're hereby pegged.
Health care reform has been debated and both sides had plans in motion.
The republican plans were summarily dismissed by the dem controlled house and senate.
Instead dems passed their version, nicked as obamacare, because their version , the one obama supported and signed into law, was the monstrosity we have now as law.
What you are saying Romney said is factually and blatantly incorrect, and for you, or anyone to push it as such is disingenuous, minimally.
But then, you already knew that, so...what is the real game here?
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