Imagine Mitt Romney had been elected president in 2008 and championed the healthcare reform plan he signed into law in Massachusetts. After all, he called the reforms there a "model for the nation."
Imagine that he won over skeptical Republicans by massaging conservatives' get-tough, take-personal-responsibility erogenous zone and calling the mandate "the ultimate conservative idea—which is that people have responsibility for their own care, and they don't look to government to take care of them if they can afford to take care of themselves." ...(more)
