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On Mitt Romney, Healthcare, and Domino’s Pizza

I was more bullish on Mitt Romney in 2009.

I’m not anti-Romney now. I was just a bigger fan just after the 2008 elections when I realized what a mistake John McCain was and saw where Romney could have helped us (no Republican was winning that year). Today he seems like just another average candidate, when a lot of us are looking for someone to inspire and motivate.

There are two reasons for that. One is that he’s stayed quiet. He’s hasn’t felt in necessary to overreact to every little media story like a lot of the other candidates have, and only comment on an issue when it was warranted. I can respect that, trying to look like the only “grown up in the room.”

The other reason is RomneyCare. You know, his healthcare plan that was the inspiration for ObamaCare, that we know was the inspiration for ObamaCare because the Obama Campaign makes it a point to say so any chance they get knowing the conservative are going to overreact and say “See, I told you so.” Shenanigans aside, it is a problem for Mitt, but I have a solution. Domino’s Pizza.
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Paul Ryan Wins the Week

Surprisingly, it’s not because he had a hit song written aboot him.

Just before Paul Ryan gave his response to the State of the Union, I had tweeted “If he pulled a Jindal, I’m gonna wild out and get violent.” This was a reference to Bobby Jindal giving a response two years ago that was so disastrous, this once “rising star in the party” hasn’t really recovered from as far as the “national stage” goes, which really sucked because his was a voice that we could have really used during the healthcare debate.

Thankfully, Ryan was more successful, especially as we’re getting into another debate on health care and are counting on him to be one of our leaders. The day after SOTU, he started to lead in his first hearing as chairman of the House Budget committee. The first thing we learned? Apparently two of the main promises that come with Obamacare are a bunch of hooey…

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Charlie Crist on ObamaCare: “What’s ObamaCare?”

I’m admittedly, even though I can’t vote in Florida, totally in the tank for Marco Rubio. And since it’s my blog, I don’t have to be fair and balanced if I don’t want to. But last week perfectly illustrated why I think Rubio is our future and Charlie Crist doesn’t believe in anything but winning.

The Crist campaign has recently started ratching up it’s criticism of Marco Rubio, most recently over leaked information from the Florida GOP (which is guy Jim Greer was the head of, until I believe he either resigned our was ousted) that Marco Rubio, as Speaker of the House, used GOP money on personal expenses…
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Mitch Daniels: Healthcare Reform Hoosier Stylee

So many articles lately on Mitch Daniels, so little time. This one is topical because it has to do with health care reform, or more specifically, health savings accounts. You know, one of the Republican alternatives the President lies aboot us not having.

I’ve always been the most interest in HSA (let Wikipedia explain more), just because it works the best for me personally. I do this weird thing where I take relatively decent care of myself, so outside of my annual physical my medical costs are generally low. Now, admittedly, I don’t fully understand how it would effect families or non-preventable illnesses like the cancer, but everything else I’ve read aboot it seems to make the most sense.

The Democrat Party claims this is all nonsense, and it only puts money in the hands of [place latest HCR bogeyman here]. However for the people of Indiana, where Mitch Daniels has put HSA’s into action, they seems to be happy with them as the current Governor (and possible 2012 candidate) explains…

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Three Alternatives to ObamaCare

Since I’ve been off from blogging- or more so, mainly over the past week – I’ve been called a racist, a Nazi, a brownshirt, un-American, a holocaust denier, a terrorist, a political terrorist, and even worse then a 9/11 terrorist…all because I have a dissenting viewpoint on what Dear Leader is calling healthcare reform…or health insurance reform…or whatever he’s calling this week.

And the fact that the name calling is coming from the same closed minded and intolerant progressives who have been yelling for the past eight years that dissent is the highest form of patriotism is an irony that is not lost on me. That’s just a pet peeve of mine, up there with the realization that criticizing your own party is a waste of time when in the end you’re accused of blindly following it anyway, and hearing people say that Fox News should be taken off the air based on something they heard from MSNBC. Another peeve is hearing that the Republican’s have no ideas to reform health care of their own.

Of course in Liberaleese, when you have an idea that differs from what they think, it’s the same of not having one on the first place (again, they’re closed minded and intolerant of anyone who has a different viewpoint). Dear Leader constantly denies the R’s have any alternatives, even when they physically hand him their alternatives (as was the case with Eric Cantor and the stimulus bill). So even though the R’s have at least four alternative bills that they’ve introduced, not to mention a video podcast twice a week featuring two Republican senators who are also family physicians, it’s no surprise it’s all being ignored in lieu of…Hey, look over there at that obvious distraction!

That’s where we come in, to help school people that yes Virginia, the Republicans do in fact want to reform health care, even though we think the current plan for ObamaCare su-diddly-ucks. I’ve highlighted three such examples:
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Rove to GOP: “Man Up Against Obamacare.”

Anytime anyone is an effective voice for the Republican position on anything, the media always says they’re the wrong messenger right now, whether it is Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, or Dick Cheney. The fact that had Cheney not been winning the argument Obama wouldn’t have had to give a speech…a minor detail that is lost in translation. And while he doesn’t have as big as a megaphone with his weekly column in the Wall Street Journal, I’m sure Karl Rove (or K-Ro, as he’s known on the streets), is near the top of the list as well.

Last week K-Ro gave his prescription for what the GOP needs to do to fight the public socialization of the government run Obamacare. Before we go any further, since if we don’t say it no one else will (and will believe Obama when he lies), a few words on where the GOP stands on healthcare reform. Yes Virginia, regardless of what the fair and balanced MSNBC has to say, we do in fact believe healthcare needs to be reformed…

Health care desperately needs far-reaching reforms that put patients and their doctors in charge, bring the benefits of competition and market forces to bear, and ensure access to affordable and portable health care for every American. Republicans have plans to achieve this, and they must make their case for reform in every available forum.

That’s what to do with our plan. As for how to fight the Obama Campaign’s public socialization of the government run Obamacare, there are five keys facts that need to get out there. The bullet points…

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