Paul Giorgio: Romney Re-Emerges
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Why has Mitt Romney come out of hiding? Because he needs to get back into the good graces of the far right, believes Paul Giorgio.
This past Sunday, the weekend talk shows where chock a block full of talking heads discussing what is referred to as Obamacare, and Massachusetts was well represented.
Romney emerges from exile
The Republican Party brought out two attack dogs on these Sunday shows to blast the Affordable Healthcare act. One of the attackers was none other than our own former Governor Willard Mitt Romney. You remember him don’t you? About a year ago he lost the election to Barack Obama by close to 5 million votes.
Romney is quietly emerging from his exile. This may have been his first public appearance since he was last seen pumping gas shortly after he lost the presidential election. We all remember One percent Mitt. He is the guy who couldn’t win reelection as governor of Massachusetts, so he ran for president.
During that campaign he disparaged the poor and embraced the wealthy, he ran away from Massachusetts and he ran away from Romney Care. Once again we find Romney carrying the water of the GOP, Big Insurance & big Pharma. Romney has less credibility on this issue than the 47% of Americans, who he vilified in the last campaign and who desperately need health care coverage.
Why now?
So why bring out Romney to call the president a liar? Because Romney needs to get back into the good graces of the far right. Romney’s line of attack was that the Affordable Healthcare Act should be left up to individual states. This is the same line of attack the Republicans have been launching on a whole host of issues before congress. This is the same line or rationale that the Tea Party Republicans have used against voting rights.
This line of attack does have name-States Rights. That’s correct Republicans have been trotting out the old chestnut of states’ rights. However they are trying to disguise it because of its racist legacy.
It appears that we are going to have this argument over healthcare for a long time, possibly well past the 2014 mid-term elections, that is unless the GOP loses control of the House of Representatives.
What we need to do is fix the problem not talk it to death, which is what the Right wants to do. Just because the rollout was bad, doesn’t mean that the Affordable HealthCare Act is bad. The law does a great many good things, like covering preexisting conditions.
The return of Scott Brown
And in case you missed it the second attack dog unleashed over the weekend was our former 2-year United States Senator Scott Brown, who claimed that President Obama’s appearance in Boston last week, “made his blood boil”.
Scott Brown's biography should be coming out any day know, and I think the title should be Desperately Seeking Relevance.
This one two punch of Romney and Brown lacks credibility. They both were rejected by the voters of their home state in the same year. Romney is one of the very few party nominees for president who couldn’t carry his own state and Brown was trounced by Elizabeth Warren.
Let’s reject Mitt Romney and his attack, let’s leave Scott Brown to figure out what he wants to be and let’s work to make the Affordable Care Act better.
Paul Giorgio is a longtime Democratic Party Activist who has worked on numerous campaigns. He was a Lead Advance Person for President Clinton & Vice President Gore. He was Deputy Director of Special Events for President Clinton’s first Inauguration. He has been elected a delegate to numerous Democratic National Conventions and recently served as one of President Obama’s representatives on the Platform Committee. In 2013 he was chosen as a Presidential Elector. He is the President of Pagio, Inc., publishers of Pulse Magazine, Vitality Magazine and Worcester Medicine.
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