March 13, 2008

Romney as Veep? Only If the GOP is the Stuck-on-Stupid Party

Filed under: Health Care, Taxes & Government — TBlumer @ 8:41 am

The British National Health Service (NHS) is “the sick man of Europe.”

So of course, the country’s supposedly right-of-center party should do all it can to bring this nonsense here (/sarc).

Let me be among the first to suggest that Commonwealth Care in Massachusetts aka RomneyCare, the Bay State’s NHS imitator and the “brainchild” of Objectively Unfit Mitt Romney, is fast becoming “the sick man of the USA.”

GOP insiders, if they prevail in their attempt to convince John McCain to become associated with RomneyCare’s failures by selecting the Mittster as his Veep, will prove once and for all that theirs is really the SOP (Stupid Old Party), fast working on becoming the SDP (Stupid Dead Party).

The warning signs about RomneyCare’s implosion have been out there at least as far back as last October (fourth item at link). Its crackup will be used by the Democratic nominee as “proof” that the only solution to the “health care crisis” is to have Uncle Sam take the industry over, as it’s “just too big” for one state to try to solve.

As you can see from this compilation of posts during Romney’s presidential candidacy, the RomneyCare crackup is one of a bazillion reasons covering the entire range of conservatism why the selection of Mitt Romney as the Vice Presidential nominee would be a Stuck-on-Stupid-Party move.

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ALSO: Adding an exclamation point to all of this, Gregg Jackson had an important update at Pundit Review last week on what is still the best and most important reason to reject Mitt Romney for any kind of state or national office. It vindicates everything that Mass Resistance and Jackson (whom Romney himself characterized as “delusional” in January) have been saying about the inarguable fact that Romney unilaterally, unconstitutionally, and unnecessarily imposed same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.

UPDATE, 3:15 p.m.: Gotta break some news to NixGuy, using his AOL URL. Nix says this –

So the conclusion is that with McCain/Romney, you had better hope that the Evangelical vote will think only about the war/security issues, and not about anything else. Romney’s not a horrible choice, he does unite a couple wings of the party and might further cement establishment support, but there would still remain, I fear, a disconnect with the base, and if that remains until November, Romney and McCain can heal all they want and it won’t matter.

That evangelical “hope” will be dashed when Old Media oh-so-helfully digs out the truth of the gay-marriage situation in Massachusetts. It will further disconnect McCain from the GOP base, with the exception of a certain blogger, who as of this moment has had nothing to say at his blog about Romney as Veep, at least in the past two weeks. I take this as a signal that this blogger is not a big fan of the idea, and that Romney is just toying with us to have an excuse to be in front of the cameras.

6 Comments

  1. It gets even crazier
    Romney’s owns Home Depot, under the umbrella of Bain Capital, his business was involved in the mess on gun control, Home Depot ran a “Gun Free Zone” campaign in it stores, which set off a fire storm with gun owner advocates. Check out Lou Rockewell sites.

    http://www.lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster97.html
    • “Gun Free Zones: Home Depot got its butt kicked. This used to be the link to what appeared to be its new “gun free zone” policy. No more. Once again, while seeing gun owners as second-class citizens, some clueless, corporate eggheads at Home Depot thought they’d start a new policy banning concealed weapons carry in Home Depot stores in Michigan and Minnesota. Oh sure, it is private property, and Home Depot can do what it may, but the politically incorrect, second-class citizenship status accorded to gun owners must be fought on non-violent grounds. And the gun owners of America have the power to do it.”

    Comment by sweetness and light — March 13, 2008 @ 10:38 am

  2. #1, I don’t think I see Bain on the current institutional HD holders list. Or is it under a different name? or have they since divested HD?

    Comment by TBlumer — March 13, 2008 @ 10:54 am

  3. I will check, the last reserch I did showed Bain and Home Depot.

    Comment by sweetness and light — March 13, 2008 @ 11:21 am

  4. Late on June 19, 2007, Bain Capital LLC, Carlyle Group and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice agreed to acquire Home Depot Supply for $10.3 billion, each firm buying a one-third stake in the division. Home Depot sold their wholesale construction supply business to fund a stock repurchase estimated at $40 billion. [5]

    wikipedia

    Comment by sweetness and light — March 13, 2008 @ 11:23 am

  5. I’m pretty sure HD Supply isn’t Home Depot. I think it’s like the logistics part of it, which HD spun off as a separate firm to Bain.

    If I’m right, that means Bain doesn’t have involvement in HD the parent which runs the stores.

    But if you have other info, I’d like to see it. Regardless, HD’s gun-free zone idea was really stupid, from a freedom and business standpoint.

    Comment by TBlumer — March 13, 2008 @ 11:29 am

  6. You are correct, I stand corrected. HD has a Retail Segment and a HD supply segment, the latter which Bain purchased.

    And it was a dumb idea for the ‘gun free zone’.

    Comment by sweetness and light — March 13, 2008 @ 1:25 pm

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