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Responding to the Supreme Court’s decision, Mitt Romney said, “Our mission is clear: if we want to get rid of Obamacare, we have get rid of President Obama.” While he said he agreed with the dissenters on the constitutional question, no ruling can change the policy implications: “Obamacare was bad policy yesterday. It’s bad policy today.”
Romney concluded by urging everyone who wants to “repeal and replace” Obamacare to join his mission. Romney is an unlikely hero for the full repeal movement. But the Court has given him an opportunity to press this issue if he is willing and able to do it.
UPDATE: Obama made sure to mention Romney’s past support for the individual mandate in his own response to the ruling.
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DRed| 6.28.12 @ 12:21PM
But apparently it wasn't bad policy when he was governor of Massachusets. Not sure how any of you can take any Mittens says about health care seriously. He's so obviously telling you whatever you want to hear.
JD| 6.28.12 @ 1:46PM
It was bad policy, it is bad policy, and only one candidate will fight it. Romney isn't my favorite, but he's the best candidate now.
Occam's Tool| 6.28.12 @ 3:48PM
That's fine, as long as he carries out what he says he will, DRed. Do you believe that George Wallace really loved Black people in his last Governorship? If you say "no," given his past record, I will then invite you to examine his last governorship more closely.
Only Nixon could go to China.
RCV| 6.28.12 @ 12:29PM
Mr. Etch-a-sketch indeed.
CJW| 6.28.12 @ 12:41PM
If he were a Dem, you would say he is evolving and responding to the wishes of the people, ala Bubba!
RCV| 6.28.12 @ 1:37PM
And if he were a Dem, you would say that he was for an individual mandate before he was against it.
CJW| 6.28.12 @ 3:08PM
John Kerry voted yes then no on the exact same bill on the same day or week. Different facts.
spike59| 6.28.12 @ 3:42PM
don't waste facts on Dems; they're allergic
R. Dittmar| 6.28.12 @ 12:36PM
Given what we know about Flip Flopney, I would say that voting out Obama might be necessary but it's certainly not sufficient.
ejp| 6.28.12 @ 12:56PM
And this is the point that all the Pollyannas of the Right who think today's ruling helps us keeps missing. This ruling highlights Romney's central flaw as GOP candiate from the get-go. The ONLY reason why conservatives were making peace with him in recent months was because we took for granted the idea that Obamacare would be taken off the table and repealed allowing Romney's past on the subject of individual mandates to become a non-issue. Now it just became Obama's biggest weapon of counter-attack. So right now, all you "conservatives" who told us to get behind Romney, THANKS FOR NOTHING!
W. James Antle III | 6.28.12 @ 1:13PM
I wrote repeatedly that Mitt Romney's support of the individual mandate was going to be a serious problem. And anyone who took for granted that Obamacare was going to be overturned made a very serious mistake.
Jack in Wi| 6.28.12 @ 2:55PM
That makes 2 of us Mr. Antle. Obama will crucify Romney on this issue. He just is not credible. Romneycare, Obamacare, Gingrichcare, and Santorumcare all were put together by the insurance lobbies. They want everyone paying in and they want to provide less care at the end of life. Both party's are run by the banks, insurance, military industrial, and foreign government lobbies. We will have to shut up and slave away or they will send a drone to take us out.
Beppo| 6.28.12 @ 3:22PM
Three of us. Nominating Romney effectively took this issue off the table however much some want to convince themselves this is loser for Obama. He's just had a huge win and boxed Romney in at the same time. Can you see him playing with Romney in the debates. I can.
Dixon| 6.28.12 @ 1:26PM
Romney should state the "era of big government is over" and new middle class tax incease created by SCOTUS simply cannot be forced on the people. "Elect me and the tax called BOcare is dead".
Another bit of bad news for the socialist in chief...this will guarantee the economy remains in the tank until Nov. No one was hiring before due to the uncertainty, in large part caused by the BOcare.
Sandra Day O'Roberts took the uncertainty and made it infinitely worse to hire new workers while it is clear those with company insurance will very likely lose it and be told to fend for themselves.
The strongly disapprove votes for the new middle class tax hike created by SCOTUS is gonno go through the roof.
Beppo| 6.28.12 @ 3:18PM
Quite honestly it will be suicidal for Romney to campaign on repeal give his history of introducing whatever way you spin it was essentially Obamacare. So now he's supposed to open himself up to a barrage of ads saying he's going to allow insurance companies to cap payments, deny existing conditions, take kids off their parent's policies. Get real. Some of us pointed out from the get go that nominating Romney effectively neutralised any criticism of Obamacare.
JD| 6.28.12 @ 3:42PM
Unless, of course, America magically becomes mature enough to understand that one can learn from his mistakes.
Romney's nomination was inevitable for years, so railing against it it futile.
The truth is the key. ObamaCare does not "provide" anything. It enslaves people, forcing them to hand things out.
Occam's Tool| 6.28.12 @ 3:45PM
Folks: Romney's best bet is to pull a George Wallace on Integration: Wallace turned from the most segregationalist of governors to the MOST integrationalist. He needs to announce that he will sign a repeal bill as soon as it is passed, and that the only way Obamacare will go down is if he is elected, and that his position on "RomneyCare" is irrelevant since States exist to be labs and ObamaCare is bad policy, period.
StevenYano| 6.29.12 @ 3:04AM
Before we let the Supreme Court's health care decision and big money propel Mitt Romney into the White House, we should get a better understanding of the cult that produced Mitt Romney, and get our socks scared off, by reading The Assassination of Spiro Agnew, available at
www.amazon.com/Assassination-S.....B0083EGJXC
It dramatizes the Mormon superiority complex manifesting as racism, sexism, jingoism, and an anti-federal government temperament.
It shows the similarities between Islam and Mormonism and reveals the secrets of Mormon mind control.
Consider this review:
“With a clarity of language and vision unsurpassed in contemporary American prose, Steven Janiszewski's Assassination of Spiro Agnew takes us into a U.S. mazed with madness and Mormonism and all things Utah, a U.S. that was then and still is. Do we need a novel, even as brilliant as this one, about a young man on a divine mission to assassinate the Vice President because he is too liberal? Yes, now more than ever. Readers, welcome to a masterpiece.”
Tom Whalen
www.tomwhalen.com
Everyone should read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew.