Romney: My health care law is evidence of empathy

[Zorro]

Source: AP

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is pointing to his Massachusetts health care law as evidence that he has empathy for ordinary Americans.

Romney usually avoids talking about the health care law he championed as Massachusetts governor because President Barack Obama cites it as the basis of his own federal health care law. Republicans reject what they call "Obamacare" as a costly government takeover.

Campaigning in Ohio on Wednesday, Romney told NBC News that he understands Americans' lives and the challenges they face. In citing the Massachusetts health care law, he said, "Don't forget, I got everybody in my state insured."

Liberals tend to favor universal health care while conservatives tend to oppose it.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/romney-health-care-law-evidence-empathy-003249519--election.html

[Fgiriun]

1. This guy

is doing everything but literally flinging shit at the wall just to see what sticks.

[graegoyle]

2. I was against it...

...after I was for it; now I'm for it, after I was against it...

I'm a leader! Romney 2016!

[pepperbear]

3. crickets...a lone tumbleweed....somewhere a coyote howls.

[sofa king]

4. ... or lack thereof.

That's a hell of a campaign plank there, Mitt: "Look, I'm not a sociopath!"

[Javaman]

6. +1 nt

[antigop]

7. +1. Funny....n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Pitiful

[SoapBox]

8. WTF?

...such an idiot and asshole, rolled into one.

[TomCADem]

9. Yet, He Is Pushing Emergency Room Care For Everyone Else!

The lack of logic is stunning.

[ZombieHorde]

10. Bwahahaha! nt

[blackspade]

11. WTH?!

Rmoney has got to be one of the most dysfunctional people to have run for president in modern times.

He makes Bush II look empathetic and compassionate.
Unbelievable.

[jonesgirl]

12. Romney: Don't forget I degraded half of "those people" in the United States.

Romney is poison

[iamthebandfanman]

13. lmao n/t

[Iliyah]

14. I heard a caller to Stephanie Miller the other day from Mass.

She explained that it was the Dems in that state that pushed for Healthcare and Mittens went against it approx. 8 times before the legislators had enough votes to override Mittens to finally start the health care program. Could this be the October Surprise since Mittens is now embracing it? Personally I don't think so, but its fun to speculate.

[fujiyama]

15. This guy is hysterical

ROFL.

I'm for it, I'm against it, I'm partly for it, mostly against it, Fuck it just go to the ER, oh wait, I think I'm for it again.

My head is spinning. The campaign sure is shaking that etch a sketch a lot recently!

[Doctor_J]

24. I am against it, but it shows my empathy anyway

[Journeyman]

16. When you have to tout your bonafides, you ain't got what you claim to have. . .

An honest man's acts say all that's needed to be said.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. "My health care law is evidence of empathy"

No Mitt, it's evidence of your thinking EVERYTHING has a price.

[crim son]

18. When I pointed out the hypocrisy inherent in this position, a teabagger ex-friend claimed

that it was merely an indication that Rmoney supports States' rights. May be, but then his claim to compassion is bullshite.

[oldsarge54]

19. BY your words ye shall be known

And your mouth show very little empathy. By embracing the Tea Party antipathy to the copy of your own health care plan, it show you are a hypocrite.

THrow in the towel.

[Javaman]

20. His comment reminds me of a scene from the great movie, "Stalag 17"

When the Geneva inspector comes to the camp to check on the POW's and the German Sargent Schulz is showing off the meal that they eat.

He starts fishing around in the soup for a hamhock and can't find one...

"where is the ham hock?!? there is supposed to be a hamhock in there!"

[tanyev]

21. And your promise to repeal Obamacare is evidence of......?

[lunatica]

22. Your life's work shows how much you care Romney

[Doctor_J]

23. Then why are you campaigning against it?

Or are you saying you used to have empathy? I don't get it.