Romney to Obama in 2009: Romneycare is the answer for the Nation

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Looks like Romney really wrote Obamacare as well. He was all hot for it back in 2009. That was, of course, before he was against in in 2011 and forward.

...To find common ground with skeptical Republicans and conservative Democrats, the president will have to jettison left-wing ideology for practicality and dump the public option.

Our experience also demonstrates that getting every citizen insured doesn't have to break the bank. First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance. Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages "free riders" to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others. This doesn't cost the government a single dollar. Second, we helped pay for our new program by ending an old one — something government should do more often. The federal government sends an estimated $42 billion to hospitals that care for the poor: Use those funds instead to help the poor buy private insurance, as we did.

This guy is a joke!

[slim 1,530]

Romney is nothing more than white bread Obama.

Or, Obamalite. However you prefer.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Romney is nothing more than white bread Obama.

Or, Obamalite. However you prefer.

Romney is more like Obama without conviction. He's like Obama without a backbone. He's a wimp.

[mawilson 2,133]

Romney is more like Obama without conviction. He's like Obama without a backbone. He's a wimp.

So you keep saying.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

So you keep saying.

What would you call him? A rich wimp?

[mawilson 2,133]

What would you call him? A rich wimp?

A winner.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

What would you call him?

Not Obama, and much like four years ago with McCain, that might be enough.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

A winner.

Did I miss election day?

Not Obama, and much like four years ago with McCain, that might be enough.

McCain wasn't Bush. Playing field was level on that count.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Did I miss election day?

McCain wasn't Bush. Playing field was level on that count.

Bush wasn't running four years ago, something Obama and the rest of the lemmings forget.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Bush wasn't running four years ago, something Obama and the rest of the lemmings forget.

That's right. You seemed to suggest that Obama benefited from the "anything but Bush" attitude among voters. Then again, McCain wasn't Bush either and he still lost. Could have been because of the ditz.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

That's right. You seemed to suggest that Obama benefited from the "anything but Bush" attitude among voters. Then again, McCain wasn't Bush either and he still lost. Could have been because of the ditz.

McCain turned a lot of voters off on the right, his maverick reputation preceded him. Think Goldwater and the Daisy Ad, for many of us alive during the Vietnam War, that ad kept playing through our minds.

Edited August 25, 2012 by The Patriot

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

McCain turned a lot of voters off on the right, his maverick reputation proceeded him.

Then Mitt is doomed. He was not so much a maverick as he was a liberal.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Romney has a bit of that same reputation. Much like McCain, Romney is the Republican candidate the left said they could vote for, and of course, they were lying again. Republicans have to stop listening to the opposition, and choose somebody they (the Republicans) like.

Edited August 25, 2012 by The Patriot

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Romney has a bit of that same reputation. Much like McCain, Romney is the Republican candidate the left said they could vote for, and of course, they were lying again. Republicans have to stop listening to the opposition, and choose somebody they (the Republicans) like.

Absolutely. They should run Palin/Akin. I'd approve such ticket. It would be a landslide. One that would bury the Republicans.