Today he issued a statement condemning Obamacare. Sounds okay, but I'll tell you what's wrong with it after you read it:
What's wrong with this statement is that Obamacare is basically the Romneycare program he created for Massachusetts which is currently in big financial trouble in that state. He pushed state-run health care in Massachusetts and it's failing. Why should I believe his protestations about Obamacare now?America has just witnessed an unconscionable abuse of power. President Obama has betrayed his oath to the nation — rather than bringing us together, ushering in a new kind of politics, and rising above raw partisanship, he has succumbed to the lowest denominator of incumbent power: justifying the means by extolling the ends. He promised better; we deserved better.
He calls his accomplishment “historic” — in this he is correct, although not for the reason he intends. Rather, it is an historic usurpation of the legislative process — he unleashed the nuclear option, enlisted not a single Republican vote in either chamber, bribed reluctant members of his own party, paid-off his union backers, scapegoated insurers, and justified his act with patently fraudulent accounting. What Barack Obama has ushered into the American political landscape is not good for our country; in the words of an ancient maxim, “what starts twisted, ends twisted.
His health-care bill is unhealthy for America. It raises taxes, slashes the more private side of Medicare, installs price controls, and puts a new federal bureaucracy in charge of health care. It will create a new entitlement even as the ones we already have are bankrupt. For these reasons and more, the act should be repealed. That campaign begins today.
For the sake of the nation and the party let's get somebody better to be our nominee.
And don't think the DNC is going to let him get away with criticizing a program very similar to what he created in Massachusetts.
And don't think the DNC is going to let him get away with criticizing a program very similar to what he created in Massachusetts.
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I couldn't support him last time because of RomneyCare, and I sure won't support him now. A Romney candidacy would be divisive and toxic, especially now, and one way or the other it would doom us to the status quo as of yesterday.
He needs to do the right thing and continue to support Republican candidates from the background, as he did with Scott Brown, and not run for President and continue insisting that his healthcare plan has no relationship to Obamacare.
Unfortunately it appears Romney's spending all his time laying the groundwork for the next election, which will totally waste our time when we should be uniting to fight the Democrats.
Best wishes,
Laura
He needs to come out with a HUGE
mea culpa
and explain WHY he thought that was a good idea then, and HOW he's learned different. And it better be GOOD!
Then, maybe, we'll accept it.
There are plenty of better candidates lining up for the Republican ticket. Romney isn't and won't be one of them.
Just watch and see.
RomneyCare has been a disaster and Romney knows it. He will NOT get my vote if he runs for President in 2012.
Goofy Dick, woah! If Romney gets the nomination, you don't want to vote for Obama obviously. And you can't not vote because that's voting for Obama.
I'm not campaigning for Romney here. But I'll say this -- Romney is far superior to Obama. And a man who screws something up (Romneycare) and realizes he made a mistake is far superior to one who devises a trap and happily sets it up so that you can fall in it. And then laughs and watches basketball once the trap is set.
Anybody with an "R" after their name is better than Obama.
Of course, we want the best "R" we can get. But let's be clear, it's a two party system.
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