Lucky Rick
by Blog Feed • February 10, 2012 • Conservative Bloggers News Feed, General • 0 Comments
The contretemps over the HHS mandate can do nothing but help the candidacy of Rick Santorum. For months, Mitt Romney has been lamely defending Romneycare, hiding behind the shriveled fig leaf of the Tenth Amendment to obscure what everyone now acknowledges — that the Massachusetts program is the forebear of and inspiration for Obamacare. That simple fact ought to be instantly disqualifying in a 2012 GOP presidential candidate — especially after the 2010 landslide, from which the party bosses clearly learned nothing — and it’s a tribute to Romney’s talent, drive, organization and cash that he’s managed to come this far. It also helped that, all by himself, he was fully one-half of the establishment/Tea Party divide, and thus benefited from a split vote for his opponents as long as a divide-and-conquer strategy could work. Keep …
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Lucky Rick
