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Incurable 6.3.11 Updated: 2011-06-06 10:27:35 Description: If President Obama had failed to get his massive health-care overhaul through Congress, Mitt Romney would today be a strong frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. Some conservatives and libertarians would continue to object to the health-care plan he shepherded through the legislature in 2006, when he was governor of Massachusetts. But so long as conservatives were satisfied with his proposals for federal legislation on health care, he would be able to shrug off the criticism — as he did in 2008, when he ran for president and his rivals Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson used the issue against him. In a parallel universe without Obamacare, Romney would still have strong support among both conservatives and the party establishment. In reality, of course, Obama succeeded and the Republican party committed itself to repeal of the new health-care law. Health care thus remains a huge issue. It will probably be the most politically important domestic-policy difference between the parties in 2012. The issue will therefore be much more important in the Republican primaries this time than it was in 2008. Already, it has conservatives looking at Romney with much more hostility. The party establishment is hedging its bets because it thinks that hostility might cost him the nomination. So Romney is a weak frontrunner, if he is a frontrunner at all. GoToMeeting makes it easy to collaborate online with anyone anywhere. Try it free. http://bit.ly/gtmq211 Brought to you by OutloudOpinion.com LISTEN NOW | DOWNLOAD |
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