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Romney in Free Fall After a Double Dose of ObamaCare/RomneyCare Doom
First Mitt Romney’s spokesperson indirectly endorsed ObamaCare on Fox News, then President Obama took the stage in Denver and dismantled Romney’s new found conservative healthcare values.
In the morning the conservative universal was set a tizzy by Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul’s ringing endorsement of Romneycare/Obamacare on Fox News.
Saul was responding to the new Priorities USA super PAC ad where an a man blames Romney for his uninsured wife’s death, when she got way off message and said, “Obviously it’s unfortunate when anyone loses their job. This particular case was a plant that was closed years after Governor Romney left the company, and, to that point, you know, if people had been in Massachusetts under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they woulda had health care.”
While people not dying because they have access to healthcare is good thing to most Americans, Saul’s remarks were a sign of the Apocalypse to conservatives.
Rush Limbaugh summed up the general conservative attitude of doom by saying, “That’s a potential gold mine for the Obamaites, because they can say, “Well, yeah, and Romneycare’s the foundation for our plan, Obamacare,” which they are already out there saying.”
Hours later President Obama took the stage in Denver and hammered Romney for his conservative values on healthcare,
Mr. Romney is running as the candidate of conservative values. There’s nothing conservative about a government that prevents a woman from making her own health care decisions. He says he’s the candidate of freedom. But freedom is the chance, the opportunity to determine for yourself the care that you need, when you need it. It’s the ability to change jobs or start your own business without fear of losing your health insurance.
We’re not going back to the days when it was acceptable to charge women more than men for health care. And we’re not going back to the days when women with preexisting conditions, like being a cancer survivor, were denied affordable care. We’re not going to kick more than a million young women off their parent’s plan. We are not going backwards, Denver. We’re moving forward. That’s why I’m running for President again.
There is nowhere for Romney to go on this. If he tries appease the base, President Obama is going to keep hammering him. If he embraces Romneycare, conservatives are going to rebel and possibly stay home on Election Day. Either way, Mitt Romney loses.
If Romney stays in the middle and takes Romney/Obamacare off the table, he is going to be working against the strategy of many House Republican incumbents who have made repealing Obamacare a centerpiece of their campaigns. If Romney moves back to the right, he going to face endless 30 seconds using his own campaign spokesperson against him. It is a classic lose/lose.
Mitt Romney hasn’t even accepted his party’s nomination yet, but he is already wearing the look of a doomed candidate and if he can’t hold Republicans together all hell might break loose in Tampa.
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14 Responses to Romney in Free Fall After a Double Dose of ObamaCare/RomneyCare Doom
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Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 8th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
it seems that Rush Limbaugh is forgetting where Obama care and Romney care comes from. Straight from the conservative think tanks. Straight from the GOP who approved it so that they wouldn’t get single-payer and have a real insurance program.
That healthcare plan is GOP all the way
Churchlady
Aug. 8th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Nope. There is nothing anymore that is similar between the two, but because the talking points haul Romney on his own petard over this, it’s not being made clear. Romneycare aided insurance companies. It gave a flat subsidy of about $230 per person – and YOU made up the difference as your rates increased. It also carries a huge $5000 deductible from which NOTHING but childhood immunizations and pap tests is immune. Then if you get sick, you have another $10K out of pocket you can be liable for.
Obama’s program subsidizes people fully. Your cost is on a sliding scale from 1-9 percent of your income up to $90K for a family of four. There is now free coverage for single adults earning under 133% of the Federal Poverty Level. There is a tiny deductible BUT dozens and dozens of preventive and screening measures are FREE without touching the deductible, and there is no outrageous out of pocket charge if you become sick. At this moment, there IS a public option in the High Risk Pool that is incredibly affordable and being used by millions who have had NO insurance and can’t get it because of pre-existing conditions.
Yeah – the mandate is from Heritage. That’s the ONLY GOP similarity. Otherwise = not so much. Obamacare is about people’s well being. Romneycare is about keeping people from being liabilities to the rich and to insurance companies. BIG difference.
Maxie
Aug. 8th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
conservative values? this “value” means you do not want people to have health insurance. romney is a cold fish. saying if you had lived in MA, you would had insurance is devoid of empathy/sympathy.
on the other hand, this saul person just gave ANOTHER gift to the obama camp.
MsJoanne
Aug. 8th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
I’m starting to doubt that Romney is going to get the nod. He’s a lead weight pulling the GOP into the depths of nothingness.
Sugapea
Aug. 8th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Wow! Romney just lost this election.
Putting healthcare on the table is huge. Many, many voters will tune into that subject.
Thanks, Jason
buckeyewill
Aug. 8th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Ron Paul and his gang smell blood…
Lori
Aug. 8th, 2012 at 9:08 pm
Shiny thing! Maybe people will now forget about Romney’s (invisible) taxes. But, then again…
Michael
Aug. 8th, 2012 at 9:16 pm
- He has to fire his spokesperson. That’s the only way to change this narrative.
Robert Chapman
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 1:31 pm
Agreed the Romney spokesperson was singularly ineffective.
She should not be on tv talking about Romney’s integrity or lack thereof.
She should have used this as an opportunity to push Romney’s agenda.
The reason she did not push Romney’s agenda and made this personal is that Romney’s repeal of Obamacare will lead to many more stories like this as people lose their health insurance because of Romney’s first presidential act.
Barry Roope
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 10:33 am
Romney is a tax cheat, that thinks Americans are to weakminded to understand the complexities of govt, so we should shut up about his taxes, and his lack of empathy and just give him the Presidency, Guess what, Mitt, American does not like tax cheats and liars, so quit pretending that you are a polititian and someone who cares about America, we all know, you are a person with no honor, no integrity. And your wife is just as disconnected from reality as you are. Do America a favor, and please just go away, we do not require your services any futher.
Lynda Harrison
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 11:00 am
If Romney cares so much about putting people back to work, maybe he should explain why these “job-creators” who have had massive tax breaks since the era of Bumbling Bush and have prospered tremendously have not created more jobs for AMERICANS rather than outsourcing jobs overseas.
He should also explain why he and his band of merry RePUBIC-clowns are willing to risk that fiscal cliff we have heard about rather than agree to the tax proposals currently on the table.
Then try telling those of us who don’t fit in that 1% that he and his colleagues care about America!
Churchlady
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Herein lies the major difference – stimulus may well have gone to a foreign corporation SO LONG AS the jobs produced by the stimulus are here US jobs. Romney would be fine with handouts to corporations that are US based EVEN IF those jobs are in China or Vietnam or wherever.
Obama = US jobs investing in American working people.
Romney = US corporate wealth putting riches into the pockets of investors never mind working people.
Robert Chapman
Aug. 9th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
There are three rationales for Obama’s reelection.
First is that he will preserve the social safety net at a time of severe economic distress.
Second is that Obama presents a bulwark against the GOP majority in the House.
Third, is that Romney has shown in his repeated pledges to repeal Obamacare that he simply does not care about the effects of this action in people’s lives.
Gary Vaughn
Aug. 10th, 2012 at 1:31 am
Great piece Jason. I wonder, are any of you going to write one on a subject I saw on tv news while waiting for my car to be repaired. It was something about Businesses saying they were ready to let loose some money and hire, if the gridlock would just stop. I didn’t get the whole scoop on if it was or wasn’t because of the GOP obstruction, only that of the gridlock stopped, hiring would start.