Sure. But this was 2006. It’s now 2012. And you couldn’t possibly expect Romney to govern in a deep blue state in any way other than as a big government Republican with a hard-on for state-controlled medicine, could you?
States rights! 10th Amendment champion! You see? Stealthily conservative.
If anything, this desire for a mandate just proves Romney’s willingness to compromise with the Democrats, who without him wouldn’t have been able essentially to expand Medicaid to include, well, everyone. At the expense of ultimately weakening greedy Big Insurance, and turning all health care into a single payer government-controlled system.
That’s leadership. That’s working together. And it’s compromise that Americans want!
Pragmatism.
That’s working together. And it’s compromise that Americans want!
Ga. If I hear my dad explain to me ONE MORE TIME that Romney’s the man because he’s a moderate, and moderates can work with both sides to accomplish things, and that the “problem” right now is that Obama is too radical.
Which, of course, doesn’t make sense, because Obama managed to get PLENTY done as a radical. He got a whole lot of awful “done.”
Of course, the argument is that Obama’s unpopularity is a result of his radical ideas, which isn’t exactly it either. The hard left is disappointed (but still a dependable vote.)
So, why exactly do we need a great compromiser?
To Get Things Done™, Carin, that being what powerful central governments are for.
Let me just add: QED.
My liberal friends — when they can be bothered to actually think about their never thinking things through — advise me that it’s over. The classically liberal Republic is done. Kaput.
See, when cornered (which they perpetually are what with all that projecting nice onto the profoundly negative thing that is government) the leftist simply doubles down on assertions about our state, not ever on justifications of how and why we got there.
Shut up, they explained. You lost.
So, QED. The justification for leftism is leftism. They don’t give a shit about their history.
Where do we go to get things undone?
The justification for leftism is leftism. They don’t give a shit about their history.
’twas ever thus.
That’s been answered.
“When in the course of human events…”
I feel your pain, Carin. My dad says the same thing every time we talk.
Meanwhile, Roger Simon is concern trolling his own site on Santorum and homosexual marriage.
Way to keep your priorities straight, Roger. Bitchin’ hat, though.
Well, when the stupid party and the evil party work together, your results tend to be an unholy mix of stupid and evil.