Romney camp touts...Romneycare???

[candycorn]

The conservatives have been strangely quiet on this. I'm sure Willow will be in any moment now with some profane post that will be undoubtedly moronic.

 

[Lakhota]

Romney is a laugh a minute...

Romney Makes Unfortunate Slip Of The Tongue, Says Sheik, Not Sikh

 

[Greenbeard]

The conservatives have been strangely quiet on this. I'm sure Willow will be in any moment now with some profane post that will be undoubtedly moronic.

I assume you mean USMB conservatives. Because the responses from the rightwingers with actual microphones (like Erickson) have been fucking hilarious. Rush was apoplectic:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJDlro9_KJk]Rush Attacks Romney Campaign Over Mass. Law Defense - YouTube[/ame]

 

[RDD_1210]

More blatant hypocrisy from the party that has decided to make it part of their foundation.

 

[candycorn]

The conservatives have been strangely quiet on this. I'm sure Willow will be in any moment now with some profane post that will be undoubtedly moronic.

I assume you mean USMB conservatives. Because the responses from the rightwingers with actual microphones (like Erickson) have been fucking hilarious. Rush was apoplectic:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJDlro9_KJk]Rush Attacks Romney Campaign Over Mass. Law Defense - YouTube[/ame]

Yes, I meant the USMB conservatives. They should demand a recount at the convention.

 

[Seawytch]

Twice in the last 24 hours, Romney press secretary Andrea Saul noted that Joe Soptic, a man featured in a Democratic attack ad suggesting his wife’s cancer went undiagnosed because he lost his insurance, would have been able to purchase coverage under Romney’s Massachusetts law.

“To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Gov. Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care,” Saul said Tuesday. On Wednesday, she repeated the point: “If people had been in Massachusetts under Gov. Romney’s health care plan they would’ve had health care. There a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President Obama’s economy, and that is why Gov. Romney is running: to get people back to work.”

Romney Highlights MA Health Care Reforms He’s Sworn Never To Implement | TPM2012

The background here is a new Priorities USA ad, which tells the story of a man, Joe Soptic, who lost his job — and thus his health insurance — after Bain bought out his plant. Years later his wife died what may have been a preventable death of cancer.

His particular story doesn’t perfectly illustrate the problems with the country’s safety net. But far from suggesting Romney killed anybody (as his outraged supporters claim) it neatly exposes an enduring source of middle class uncertainty. If you get very sick almost anywhere in America, and then your employer goes out of business, or lays you off, you’re already running out of options. Romneycare fixed this problem in Massachusetts. Obamacare is designed to fix it for the rest of the country.

Enter the Romney campaign, which notes quite correctly that Romney’s mandated, subsidized health care system might have saved Soptic’s wife if she’d lived in Massachusetts. But if that’s such a good thing, then unless President Romney’s going to recommend that all sick and laid off people move to New England, his pledge to repeal Obamacare just falls apart.

Romneycare For Me But Not For Thee | TPM Editors Blog

What is even better than this admission by the Romney camp is the RW reaction to it. I thought Mann Coulter was going to swallow her adam's apple....

 

[Seawytch]

You really think Romney care and Obama care are the same? You aren't allowed to vote right?

Key Differences Between RomneyCare and ObamaCare | Race 4 2012

I read your little link there. The so-called "differences" are bullcrap. They're still basically the same thing.

But hey, let the Mittster try and spin it if he wants.

Of course they're the same thing. Romney's advisors on Romneycare helped the Dems craft Obamacare.

 

[rdean]

Will the "Real" Mitt Romney

Please stand up
Please stand up
Please stand up

Will the "Real" Mitt Romney

Please stand up

 

[candycorn]

Erick Erickson's reaction over at RedState was somewhat enjoyable.

The Moment All the Doubts About Romney Resurfaced on the Right | RedState

Priorities USA was damaging itself and Barack Obama over its mind numbingly insane ad painting Mitt Romney as a killer.

Then the Romney campaign decided to sabotage itself with a mind numbingly bit of spin that may mark the day the Romney campaign died.

Defending Romney and combatting the ad, Romney spokesman Andrea Saul . . . let’s go to the quotes:

“To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care,” Andrea Saul, Romney’s campaign press secretary, said during an appearance on Fox News. “There are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President [Barack] Obama’s economy.”

Conservatives have put aside their distrust of Romney on this issue in the name of beating Barack Obama. They thought he and his campaign team had gotten the message and the hints. Consider the scab picked, the wound opened, and the distrust trickling out again.

About the only thing more stupid in terms of building bridges with the right would be to say something nice about fetal stem cell research.

Start your watches for that one!

bump!

 

[Stephanie]

well then, this should make all you ObamaBots go out and vote for Romney..He's the one who thought of it first right..?

Only difference is, he didn't shove it on the country against THEIR WILL as President

but you all applaud Obama for that one...all hale Obama

 

[OODA_Loop]

they are identical.

Not according to the 10th Amendment.

 

[JoeB131]

You really think Romney care and Obama care are the same? You aren't allowed to vote right?

Key Differences Between RomneyCare and ObamaCare | Race 4 2012

I read your little link there. The so-called "differences" are bullcrap. They're still basically the same thing.

But hey, let the Mittster try and spin it if he wants.

and here's the problem. The Conservatives have ALWAYS said they wanted something like Obama/RomneyCare as opposed to a single payer system like Canada or any sensible country would do it.

Once the Public Option was removed from Obama's proposal, it effectively became RomneyCare.

Which should have been fine. IN a sane political world, Romney could have taken his bows and be seen as a visionary.

Too bad we aren't living in one of those. We are living in one where Teabaggers scream, "Get your Gummit hands off my Medicare!!!" not realizing that Medicare Part C they get from a private carrier only comes from a government subsidy.

 

[8537]

You really think Romney care and Obama care are the same? You aren't allowed to vote right?

Key Differences Between RomneyCare and ObamaCare | Race 4 2012

If those are the most significant 'key differences' (well, and the abortion coverage in MA), then it can be said unequivocally that Romneycare and Obama care are virtually identical.

And MA saw increases taxes to fund Romney care.

 

[Stephanie]

You really think Romney care and Obama care are the same? You aren't allowed to vote right?

Key Differences Between RomneyCare and ObamaCare | Race 4 2012

I read your little link there. The so-called "differences" are bullcrap. They're still basically the same thing.

But hey, let the Mittster try and spin it if he wants.

and here's the problem. The Conservatives have ALWAYS said they wanted something like Obama/RomneyCare as opposed to a single payer system like Canada or any sensible country would do it.

Once the Public Option was removed from Obama's proposal, it effectively became RomneyCare.

Which should have been fine. IN a sane political world, Romney could have taken his bows and be seen as a visionary.

Too bad we aren't living in one of those. We are living in one where Teabaggers scream, "Get your Gummit hands off my Medicare!!!" not realizing that Medicare Part C they get from a private carrier only comes from a government subsidy.

man oh man...

 

[JoeB131]

Hey, Steph... just for you.. the hammer and sickle was a nice touch.. So was the fact this teabagging chick couldn't spell "Your"

or "Government"

 

[8537]

"Don't steal from Medicare to support socialized medicine"

That's hiliarious!!

 

[Stephanie]

Hey, Steph... just for you.. the hammer and sickle was a nice touch.. So was the fact this teabagging chick couldn't spell "Your"

or "Government"

yeah sure Joel, you just know she is a tea bagger...looks more like a OWS youngster..but whatever...Keep calling your fellow Americans vulgar names, it make you look so much more intelligent

 

[8537]

Hey, Steph... just for you.. the hammer and sickle was a nice touch.. So was the fact this teabagging chick couldn't spell "Your"

or "Government"

yeah sure Joel, you just know she is a tea bagger...looks more like a OWS youngster..but whatever...Keep calling your fellow Americans vulgar names, it make you look so much more intelligent

that makes perfect sense, Stephanie! I'm sure OWS folks were strongly opposed to socialized medicine.

 

[JoeB131]

Hey, Steph... just for you.. the hammer and sickle was a nice touch.. So was the fact this teabagging chick couldn't spell "Your"

or "Government"

yeah sure Joel, you just know she is a tea bagger...looks more like a OWS youngster..but whatever...Keep calling your fellow Americans vulgar names, it make you look so much more intelligent

Oh, please, you guys were calling yourselves "Teabaggers" until someone explained what the slang version of it meant.