Axlerod Hangs Obamacare Around Romney's Neck

The administration knows that Mitt Romney is the frontrunner for the GOP nomination and they are beginning the process of tearing him down.  Fortunately for Obama, they can use Romney's own policies to do it (from the Daily Caller):

1.) Axelrod thanks Romney for Obamacare -- Poor Mitt Romney: The former Massachusetts governor wants to be president so bad, but he has a glassy-eyed albatross named "Romneycare" hanging from his neck, and dead birds are out this year. In an exit interview with USA Today, Obama advisor David Axelrod made sure the knot on Romney's necklace was good and tight. Axelrod "pointedly praised...Mitt Romney in a way that spotlighted Romney's vulnerability within the GOP for signing a state health care law that parallels the new federal law in some ways," reports USA Today. Romney "did some interesting things there on health care, you know," Axelrod said. "We got some good ideas from him." This is code for: "Do you hate Obama for Obamacare? Then you hate Romney, too, even if you don't know it." The other thing this says is that Axelrod thinks Massachusetts--where "health care spending is projected to nearly double to $123 billion in 2020, increasing 8 percent faster than the state’s gross domestic product (GDP)"--is doing it right.

If there's one thing that will keep Romney from getting the GOP nomination (and I hope there's at least one) it will be Romneycare. The Tea Party voters hate Obamacare, and Romneycare is Obamacare's ugly stepsister. And because Romneycare has been around for a few years it's easy to see the problems that are resulting from the attempt to have government health care.

Apparently the Obama people are afraid of Romney, which explains their decision to go after him.  Personally,  I think they're doing us a favor.