Dr.Traveler
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Bingo.
The Obama Administration made a decision very early on to push health care over the economy.
That right there is the winning argument for Romney, and honestly one of the many reasons Obama doesn't deserve a second term.
If Romney tries to get into the specific details of Obamacare, he will lose. That isn't speculation. The most unpopular part of it, the Mandate, will be dead in June. The rest of the big pieces are fairly popular, like No Cap, Pre-Existing, and Adult Dependents. The GOP should look into incorporating those into it's larger Healthcare strategy. Not to mention, Romney himself was pro-Mandate before he was against it. That "I was for it before I was against it!" approach worked wonderfully for John Kerry.
If he makes the debate about the fact that Healthcare became such a huge part of the legislative agenda as the economy burned, he wins. At the very very least its yet another example of poor leadership on Obama's part.
That isn't to say that the DNC didn't try to address the economy of course. They did continue a lot of Bush's policies and bailouts. However, no one wants to run on those attempts. Least of all Obama. And even with those attempts, there's no denying that the passage of Obamacare used up nearly all the political leverage and time he had in the early days. And that decision to focus on healthcare deserves to be talked about.
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