Your daily dose of Obamacare opponent
lunacy:
As Jim DeMint sees it, Mitt Romney precluded Republicans from truly campaigning against the Affordable Care Act in last year's election.
“Because of Romney and Romneycare, we did not litigate the Obamacare issue,” the Heritage Foundation president told Bloomberg Businessweek's Joshua Green in a story published Thursday.
Uh:
- Mitt Romney said he wanted to repeal Obamacare every chance he got, and he lost. So it was litigated.
- If you're going to argue that it wasn't litigated, then you also have to argue that Republicans like Obamacare, because nobody forced them to nominate Mitt Romney.
- Back in 2007, Jim DeMint not only endorsed Mitt Romney, but was a fan of Romneycare, because he said that he wanted to see Romneycare was "something we should do for the whole country."
For all their rhetorical fire, objectively speaking there's one thing that's abundantly clear: The GOP's biggest problem with Obamacare isn't what it does. It's that President Obama is the guy who has his name attached to it.
When it was called Romneycare, they were all for it.