Mitt Romney’s biggest liability in the 2012 race may not be that he’s still Mormon; it may be that when he was governor of Massachusetts, he let people have health coverage. Unfortunately for him, Republicans are working very hard these days to take health coverage from as many people as he can. So Obama does stuff like this:
Speaking to governors of both parties, President Obama said that Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who is a prospective 2012 candidate, actually had a decent idea about addressing the country’s health care system. [...]
The White House has gone out of its way in the past year to remind voters that Romney signed a law in Massachusetts to give health care to more people in Massachusetts, drawing a comparison with the Affordable Care Act.
In an interview in November, Obama compared his health plan with Romney’s. “We thought that if we shaped a bill that wasn’t that different from bills that had previously been introduced by Republicans, including a Republican governor in Massachusetts who’s now running for president, that we would be able to find some common ground there,” Obama said.
Haha, Romney. That’s what you get for having a soul for a few years! [Politico]
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Oopsie, now Mitzi isn't going to get any of those Tea Party votes. Oh well, maybe President Palin will make him the "Secretary of Good Looking."
Most of the teabaggers wouldn't touch him anyway, because of the whole Mormon thing.
I totally don't get that- but then I wouldn't touch any GOPers.
I think President Palin is reservin' that spot for Brisket, Barbara_i.
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Can Brisket have that post and the "Yeoman of the Hymen" at the same time?
Sure cuz she's a hard ass-worker.
Turn around will be fair play when Hopey leaves Bo on the roof of a car.
"That’s what you get for having a soul for a few years! "
He got "better" though.
Re-education camp somewhere, no doubt.
Lobotomy…?
What?! A Mittens post and no mention of magic undies?
For shame.
Bristol has magic undies. I hear that at least 3 pairs disappear a week in the backseat of a VW Rabbit.
Doesn't she wear them majik ones with the seamens in 'em?
Nor fudge.
Where's the fudge?
Are we ignoring the political nightmare health care will be for Obama in 2012?!
2012 is the year we get the Socialist(s) out of the White House! No more mass murderer Mao ornaments on the White House Christmas tree after 2012. No more Socialist health care programs (in contrast to Romney's free market approach.) No more union bosses as number one visitors to the White House whose call to action is the final line of The Communist Manifesto: "Workers of the world unite!"
If the two bills really are the same, and Obama is not simply being disingenuous in his compliments, why was Romney's bill about 80 pages and Obama's about 2,800?
How similar can the two bills be, REALLY? Even if the 80 pages are a carbon copy, the Obamacrats have stuffed an extra 2,720 pages of taxation and redistribution of wealth somewhere in there…
I'm sure Romney will face attacks from both the left and right, but I think America is smart enough to figure out the difference between a free market Republican who promises to repeal ObamaCare and a Socialist President who pretends to emulate RomneyCare, yet never actually solicited his advice.
Meanwhile, can so-called Christians like Huckabee ignore the obvious massive differences between ObamaCare and RomneyCare for personal/political gain while still staying Christians? Don't the Ten Commandments include a provision against bearing false witness?
We obviously don't hold Obama to such high moral codes, however… (As either Romney or Huckabee.) Lying and misleading for personal/political gain should not affect him or reflect poorly on the country he is voraciously "leading" into obscurity and debt. Should they, Mr. President?
In 2012 I will vote for the candidate who represents hope for the jobs of America, and the children and grandchildren who will need them, Mitt Romney.
Oh Jack, my boy, they aren't just taking your healthcare… Next up on the chopping block, 700,000 jobs!
(http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/moodys-gop-budget-would-cost-700000-jobs.php)
Considering that the Blessed St. Ronnie's way to take on runaway interest rates was to run unemployment up to almost 30 %, this is not surprising. Especially when you consider that the Republiklans for the last two years have been screaming that the Obama Administration wasn't doing enough about jobs. They meant getting rid of them.
Dumpster diving is considered the epitome of Free Market Economics!
The Republicans want unemployment to grow, because then they can try to blame Obama and make him easier to beat in 2012.
Who knew the GOP were freegans?
Not to worry, the free market will create all sorts of new jobs for those laid-off souls.
Maybe the Flea Market?
I liked Adam West as the original Batman. His costume showed his package to his advantage. I think that Mittens looks like the Boy Wonder, Robin. Small package, can't think for himself, and in need of constant guidance as a 'ward' of the state. Poor little orphan Mitt. Nobody wants him. He's too liberal to be a Mormon, to conservative to be a democrat and the wrong religion to be a fundie.
Just plain half-assed like Robin.
Romney couldn't beat a warm, recently filled, barf bag in the coming Republican primaries.
Especially if said bag promised to never support any health care measure, raise taxes, or conduct interviews with the lame stream media.
Warm, recently filled barf bag…
Do you mean Sarah Palin™? Or Michele Bachmann? Got It: Newt Gingrich.
I was going for something that could describe all three.
This is what I like best about our tragic Mitt: he's shown a real sense of being a decent, reasonable person in the past, and actually understands how government functions.
Ergo, the base won't have anything to do with him.
What I like best about him is how, like so many seemingly moderate GOP candidates before him, he has to twist himself into knots to run away from his decent impulses for the sake of the primary voters, all while trying to convince moderates not to pay attention to the Kabuki theater act he's doing.
It is sort of like watching a snake trying to eat itself, with us as the mice staring at the act.
Yet the Republicans court their base, they are ascared of them. Democrats? How much can we insult and disrespect the base and shit on them?
Way to give Mittens the finger, Barry.
But this was before Mittens had his convenient changes of heart to become a doctrinaire conservative shortly before the 2008 primaries.
Wait, this is a great tone that Barry is setting. He should do this more often, and tell people:
a) how great a catch Newt is
b) that he doesn't think of Rick Santorum as "that yucky stuff"
c) stand behind Pawlenty's decision to cut Medicare — just like he said.
d) and that Sarah made five perfect, wonderful children.
I also hear that Romney routinely passes by homeless people without kicking them in the face.
He's toast, I tells ya, toast.
He also keeps reminding America of the deficit and two wars he inherited from the Bush Regime, but that's considered "living in the past".
Well, Gingrinch is going around trying to tell people he is a changed man due to converting to Catholicism, so Mittens might be able to do the same. Maybe another church with sex abuse scandals, just to stay on trend… http://www.stopbaptistpredators.org/scandals.html
Who buys that crap? the man is scum- how does conversion not make him a serial adulterer who left a wife who had cancer? And won't the Baptist type Christians hate him because he is Catholic- or do they reserve their hatred for Mormons?(as my post above points out- I don't get that)
No, they hate the catholics, too, but in a different way.
Ah, but Jesus has forgiven him and so should we. (That's what my favorite horny evangelist always claims, anyway.)
Mitt-wit and His Amazing Technicolor Underpants!
I'm just waiting for Obama to take the gloves off and remind everyone that as head of the Massachusetts Caliphate, Romney used to love teh Gahyez big time.
And remind the country of the time that Romney said on tape during a debate against Ted Kennedy that he was probably more pro-choice than Ted was. That should go over real well (again).
It's especially embarrassing b/c 98% of the ppl in MA have the "Romneycare"
Mormon + Socialist = Double Down on Mittens!
When I visited the ER up in Mass back on New Year's, the bill was over a thousand bucks. I ended up paying a $25 fee on my credit card when I left the ER, and got an invoice for 21 bucks from the radiological service. A month later, the hospital refunded the 25 bucks. Paid the radiology bill with the refund and had 4 bucks left over to buy a fancy pint at the local pub. Romney is toast.
Ha ha. You know Mittens punches his pillow every night wishing it was Obama's face & then Mrs. Mittens has to soothe him by telling him how great his hair is. Barry wields his treachery with the laser precision of a surgeon.
Nice to know MA RomneyCare is supporting our micro brew industry. Caveman approves!
Just wondering but with enough brews in you do you ever become Discauxcaveman?
No mention from Politico about the key take-away from Obama's speech — his signal that the White House will support state waivers, opening the door for states like California and Vermont to push for a single -payer system???
Oh, well, I am sure they will give that tidbit the Drudge siren treatment any minute now.
In a world where Pets.com, Altavista, & Prodigy went away, Drudge soldiers on.
The 90s will never, truly, end. Though, as long as Billy Corgan still breathes, we would know that.
Allow me to add that we Mass. Dems are loving this, especially how Barack & Deval are tag-team torturing Mitt by giving him every bit of the well-earned credit he is due.
Personally, I'd like to thank Mitt for providing the health care that detected my high blood pressure and cholesterol, now both safely under control so that I can vote Democratic for the rest of my hopefully-much-longer life.
Apparently, despite popular myth, revenge is actually a dish best served at normal human body temperature.
Haha!
And I have no problem turning on Mitt, given his spectacular about-face on teh gay—his dismount on that issue alone earned him a 10 in the olympiad of political contortionists.
And, of course, this.
and barry's style is so measured he can pull off sardonic underplaying like nobody's business.
of course, american political discourse is too shriek-y to listen, but still, we can enjoy the slow torture of mittens.
So long as Mitt's response to his liberal record isn't "When I came back from Massachusetts, I had just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get when you go over to Massachusetts."
Doing a 180 degree turn (and offering lame excuses for them) when running for president is a family tradition.
This guy named his son Tagg. With two "g"s.
Mitt Romney was born Mormon… but deep down, he's a *Palin.*
Since he named his second son, Heuer, I just thought it meant that he liked Swiss sport watches.
Romney, who probably could do decently in a general election vs. Obama, has no way of winning the GOP primary.
I don't dislike Mitt for being a flip-flopper, a panderer, a Mormon, a testy thin-skinned Yankee or a diffident pretty-boy; I dislike him because he is Sarah Palin in Drag.
He's smarter than Palin, hence potentially more dangerous. Likewise, Huckabee-fuckabee. (Love that name!)
Sometimes when I think ole Barry has totally lost his touch, and he turns around and doesn't something awesome like this. Good for you, Barry. **polite golf clap**
Sometimes when I think ole Barry has totally lost his touch, and he turns around and doesn't something awesome like this. Good for you, Barry; you're doing it right. **polite golf clap**
Now, just do it more frequently and more on our behalf…
Smarter? OK. More cunning, though? I wonder.
It killed him in the last Iowa Caucuses.
That’s what you get for pretending to have a soul for a few years!
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