An interesting concern is being levied against the Right and the
success of Mitt Romney, the once GOP hopeful turned most likely. With two thirds of American voters leery of a President Obama second term,
Democrat voters have turned to the GOP and its candidates for
alternative leadership in Washington. Romney’s recent success, in their
eyes, is representative of a clear double standard the Right now refuses
to even acknowledge.
Conservatives did an excellent job educating voters that Obamacare
was both an unconstitutional power grab by the Obama Administration and
bad for America. Republicans then answered Obamacare with a plan of
"repeal and replace.” Halfhearted was the 112th Congress’ repeal attempt
while the Republicans have yet to produce any semblance of a reasonable
alternative to Obamacare, let alone "replace” it. This suggests to the
more discerning, Obamacare will never truly go away; it will merely see
small adjustments, be rebranded in Republican red and still imposed upon
the people unconstitutionally.
Unanswered concerns
These concerns are only validated in the momentum of Mitt Romney
who developed the prototype for what is now Obamacare. Suddenly, it
seems the conservative voice has been silenced by the larger GOP agenda
that is growing increasingly similar to that of the current
administration. Moreover, Democrat voters seeking republican refuge, now
ask how sincere the Right was in their fight against Obamacare.
Republicans have cried foul on the program to only turn and support the
very may who was once considered to be a candidate to administer
Obamacare itself.
To counter the critics, Romney merely adopted conservative buzzwords.
Romneycare was a matter of "personal responsibility” according to the
front-running Republican. It would appear that Romney’s exiguous and
almost insulting minimization of his practiced support of Obmacare seems
to have been enough to quite the Right that once stood in defiance of
it. Willingly forgotten by the less conservative Republican voter is
every important aspect between Romneycare and Obamacare are virtually identical.
Left in the wake of Romney’s ironic success in his bid to acquire the
Republican presidential nod is the telling truth of similarities that
are not only shared with Obamacare, but the Republican Party’s initial
attempt to impose a national health care mandate against the people.
Collectively, they are driven first by an unconstitutional health
insurance mandate.
"We are a party of personal responsibility…” Romney rationalized for
the Republican acceptance of Romneycare. A Party that Romney wishes to
openly reject the federal version of his his own program and not be
hypocritically perceived by the public.
Republican hypocrisy
Unfortunately for the Right, a glance back in history suggests
the term hypocritical may be an understatement when it comes to
Republican criticism of Obamacare. The nation’s first push for
nationalized health care enforced by a mandate was made by the Nixon Administration. Not only did conservative organizations such The Heritage Foundation support the Nixonian health care mandate,
they educated the Republican voters to support it. In the 1990’s, then
Speaker of the House Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Dole both
supported a health care mandate. Nixon’s health care mandate was boldly
rejected by a more conservative American voter. President Clinton also
attempted a nationalized health care program. The program was again
boldly rejected due the conservative voter’s awareness.
What both the Left and Right have attempted, President Obama forced
into being – he won. Not only did he win, he won with, yes, Republican
support within the 111th Congress. Romney’s Republican nomination would
make the Republican outrage over Obamacare a mere jealously fueled
temper tantrum that Obama accomplished what they could not.
Democrat voters with a more moderate temperament feel disenfranchised
by the Obama Administration’s overly Liberal agenda and are debating how
best to leave their Obama affiliations behind. They have turned to the
Right to only discover they are faced with same conundrum forcing them
to flee from the Progressive Lefitsms of the Obama Administration.
In venturing to the Right, angry Democrats have only begun to uncover a quandary of Judge Andrew Napolitano; "What if Republicans and Democrats were two wings of the same bird of prey?”
Source: http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-phoenix/republican-hypocrisy-versus-a-bipartisan-agenda |