Mitt Romney's State Sovereignty Argument Fails To Lift Health Care 'Boat Anchor' From Around His Nec

[Keith Bee]

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- The 10th amendment is a cause celebre among the Tea Party. So Mitt Romney’s argument that uses state sovereignty to defend his health care mandate in Massachusetts should be taking off with conservatives, right?

Wrong.

The former governor of the Bay State hopes to move past RomneyCare by delivering a major speech Thursday that addresses about how he would change ObamaCare at the federal level. But many conservatives still don’t think he’s sufficiently dealt with questions about his own record.

“The poor guy got told that conservatives buy this,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, in an interview. “Well, no, they don’t.”

Norquist was referring to research from the conservative Heritage Foundation that was used to bolster Romney’s 2006 signing of a universal health care bill -- a bill that is now, as Norquist put it, a “boat anchor” around Romney’s neck.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/11/mitt-romney-health-care-romneycare_n_860783.html

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Yep, it is lethal when a Republican does something for his constituents rather than the corporations.