I might also add, that despite Romneycare, Romney knows how his base feels now and he would never have created what we now know as Obamacare for the whole country.
We also know that should the SCOTUS affirm Obamacare, Romney will work to kill it.
That's quite a big difference between the two right there.
But the problem with that thinking.
Before it was called "ObamaCare" (which wasn't what Obama wanted to start with), it was called "RomneyCare". Conservatives thought it was a wonderful, free market solution. Cato and the Heritage foundation could not say enough nice things about "RomneyCare" and the notion of making insurance companies richer by forcing everyone to be their customers if they wanted to or not.
And then... the Black Guy Did It!
Once Obama's name became attached to it, it became another one of those ideas conservatives used to love but now hate.
Incidently, I don't think Romney will change ObamaCare because Big Insurance actually likes ObamaCare. Or at least the parts where they get to make money, anyway.
God I'm sick of this argument.
But anyway, Massachusetts is a far cry from the heartland and had Romney tried to push his bill through nationwide he would have found much resistance. Remember Hillarycare ?You wont find any conservatives that wanted any part of that.
Sick of what argument?
RomneyCare was the conservative alternative to HillaryCare. Romney didn't come up with it. And conservatives wanted it to be implemented nationwide. Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich were pushing it.