He liked it then; why doesn't he like it now?
Charlie Pierce writes in Esquire on his personal experience living in Massachusetts during the enactment of RomneyCare, and wonders aloud at why he would run away from such a singular accomplishment.
http://www.esquire.com/features/life-under-romneycare-1012
It is something quite unprecedented. In 2008, John McCain memorably said at one point that he wouldn't vote for an immigration bill he'd previously sponsored, but that was late in the campaign and he was floundering. What Romney has been doing, however, is tantamount to George W. Bush's actively running for president in 2000 against the education reforms he'd signed in Texas as its governor. It is like Bill Clinton in 1992 disowning the entire state of Arkansas.
The difference, of course, is in the political party that Mitt Romney has had to court in order to become its nominee. Over the five years in which he has been running almost constantly for that nomination, Romney has seen his party move so far to the right so quickly that what once was a market-based solution to the problem of affordable health care, and one blessed by the Heritage Foundation at its birth, now represents the tyrannical bootheel of government on the throat of a free people. The individual mandate is the Alien and Sedition Acts. Mitt Romney has been elected to only one office in his lifetime. In that one office, he has one significant achievement. And to be nominated by his party, he has had to strangle rhetorically his darling.
It is curious, and quite sad, to watch....
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