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Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
Sun Jun 24, 2012, 10:05 AM Jun 2012

Mitt Romney, are you now saying that Romneycare was a mistake?

We are getting inundated here in Iowa with an ad with "Dr. Ami Siems" claiming that the healthcare law stands between her and her patients. This is put out by that Concerned Women for America group and comes in conjunction with Romney's latest salvos stating that he will repeal "Obamacare," which has been loudly claimed to be "Romneycare" nationalized by some.

Now I want to hear exactly how Romney justifies this huge flipflop. What was good for Massachusetts should be good for the rest of America too.

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Mitt Romney, are you now saying that Romneycare was a mistake? (Original Post) Skidmore Jun 2012 OP
But Obama campaigned AGAINST individual mandates himself. A major position change itself. nt Romulox Jun 2012 #1
Yet despite this, many DUers BumRushDaShow Jun 2012 #2
Um, BumRush? Coopting Rightwing positions for political expediency is the very soul of the "Third Romulox Jun 2012 #3

BumRushDaShow

(129,059 posts)
2. Yet despite this, many DUers
Sun Jun 24, 2012, 10:21 AM
Jun 2012

insist that he was always nothing more than a Third-Way shill and never entertained single-payer or a public option and always wanted corporate control of healthcare.

So following that line of reasoning, how would this be a "major position change"

Romulox

(25,960 posts)
3. Um, BumRush? Coopting Rightwing positions for political expediency is the very soul of the "Third
Sun Jun 24, 2012, 10:23 AM
Jun 2012

Way"...

Obama's maneuvering with regard to the individual mandate belongs in the Third Way textbook.

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