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Massachusetts Conservatives Turn Their Backs On Mitt Romney
It has to say a lot about a candidate when the people who supported you for Governor, are campaigning against you for the Republican nomination for United States President. In April of 2011 a website called AnyoneButMitt.com was launched. It seems it may have been started by a big tea party supporter and radio talker, Michael Graham.
Here is what the first post says,
Welcome to a website from Massachusetts Republicans/conservatives dedicated to saving our party and our nation from the disaster that would be “Republican nominee Mitt Romney.”
Together we have signed the AMB Treaty: “Anyone But Mitt.” We hope you will, too. (Just click here to sign the Anyone But Mitt petition)
There are 1,000 reasons why, but the biggest and most obvious is…
ROMNEYCARE.
RomneyCare is ObamaCare 1.0 If the GOP nominates Mitt, then the 2012 election won’t be about why government-mandated, government-run health care is a disaster. Instead, it will be about which version of the disaster you want—Mitt Romney’s or Barack Obama’s.
Our answer is “neither.”
The only way to keep this from happening is for us to band together and declare…
“ANYONE BUT MITT!””
The entire premise of this campaign is simple, healthcare. Mitt Romney instituted “Romneycare” 5 years ago and is also considered the benchmark for the current federal health reform law. These conservatives in Massachusetts believe that if Mitt is nominated as the GOP’s pick, Obama gets in, hands down in 2012.
Perhaps they are onto something. Perhaps the tea party will stay home on election day in 2012, or even better, they will have a tea party candidate run as an independent. Who knows?
What I do know is this, the Massachusetts conservatives are going to be campaigning against a candidate they supported in 2008. In that primary Mitt Romney beat John McCain by about 10% in Massachusetts.
Now, I may be missing something, but Romneycare was in effect for 2 years already. Why wasn’t that a factor in 2008? Oh that’s right, President Obama thought Romneycare was a good idea, so that made the Massachusetts conservatives change their minds.
In fact, the healthcare mandate was a Heritage Foundation idea back in 1990 where they said, “government would require, by law every head of household to acquire at least a basic health plan for his or her family.”
So perhaps the Heritage Foundation should no longer be supported by conservatives either.
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8 Responses to Massachusetts Conservatives Turn Their Backs On Mitt Romney
Anne
Apr. 14th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
I figured that Romneycare would be Mitt Romney’s Achilles Heel, in spite of all his efforts to spin it as being good for Massachusetts but not the whole country. I seriously doubt that he will ever live down what is his most enduring legacy. In any case, I don’t feel sympathy for him after learning about his extensive record of stiffing everyday people in favor of the wealthy. There is also his well-documented record of flip-flopping on many issues, all for his own political expediency. That drive toward expediency is what is motivating him to put a spin on Romneycare, because the crazies he is courting don’t go for it.
Reynardine
Apr. 14th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Don’t turn your back on Mitt Romney unless you’re sure he hasn’t got so much as a hatpin, and even then, if you drop somethhing, don’t bend over to pick it up.
Shiva (Moderator)
Apr. 14th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
I wonder why they hate healthcare so much when it would help lower the deficit? This country having universal healthcare would proven it to be finally an enlightened nation. there is barely a country in Europe that would allow a person to die from lack of medicine, and here we have people who are adamant that they don’t want anything to do with helping others, they just want their money. It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mine, all mine!
The same people want to go back to the values of our founding fathers. Our founding fathers would take today’s tea party and grind them up for cannon fodder.
Anomaly100
Apr. 14th, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Hey Shivabeach, why are my comments going into moderation? Grrr!
Neon Vincent
Apr. 14th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
“It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mine, all mine!”
I know that line’s supposed to remind me of Daffy Duck, but instead I’m thinking of (no longer Agent) Smith.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z...
“Yes, me. Me, me, me.”
To which the other conservatives respond, “Me, too.”
Welcome to the mating call of the Right.
Anomaly100
Apr. 14th, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Yes fight amongst yourselves Republibaggers, please do.