{"id":26803,"date":"2012-03-02T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T00:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/that-radical-unconstitutional-evil-overreach-that-romney-recommended.html"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:08:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:08:27","slug":"that-radical-unconstitutional-evil-overreach-that-romney-recommended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/02\/that-radical-unconstitutional-evil-overreach-that-romney-recommended.html","title":{"rendered":"That Radical, Unconstitutional, Evil Overreach that Romney Recommended"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seems like some of Mitt's supporters have handed a smoking gun to Mitt's "Romneycare = Obamacare" opponents, by including a copy of a 2009 Romney op-ed in USA Today<\/i> that urged Obama to use an individual mandate, just like they did in Massachusetts. <\/p>\n

Thing is, it's not a bad article, at least by 2012 standards. It seems to have been written by a relatively moderate, business-driven Republican, like Mitt Romney presented himself as up until a year or so ago. But it looks like it's already being hauled out by Romney's opponents on the Right as yet another urgent reason to oppose him in the primaries. #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +David Kurtz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn July 2009, Mitt Romney called on President Obama to require Americans to buy insurance as part of his health care plan, using \u201ctax penalties\u201d as a backstop \u2014 in other words, the federal individual …\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Seems like some of Mitt's supporters have handed a smoking gun to Mitt's "Romneycare = Obamacare" opponents, by including a copy of a 2009 Romney op-ed in USA Today that urged Obama to use an individual mandate, just like they did in Massachusetts. Thing is, it's not a bad article, at least by 2012 standards. … Continue reading “That Radical, Unconstitutional, Evil Overreach that Romney Recommended”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,134],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-health-care","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29066,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/mitt-taxes-and-hypocrisy.html","url_meta":{"origin":26803,"position":0},"title":"Mitt, taxes, and hypocrisy","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Aug-12 9:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"Mitt's been playing the \"no tax returns\" card for years. 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