As you all know, one may be a designer of ladies’ underwear or a great dictator. But not both. Similarly, one may have passed a healthcare reform that’s a mini-version of Obamacare or one may become the Republican party’s next presidential nominee. But not both.
That, at least, is held to be Mitt Romney’s awful predicment and it’s making him do some very strange things to compensate for this dreadful weakness. Politics can be cruel: Mitt’s greatest strength was once his technocratic, problem-solving approach. His Massachusetts healthcare reforms were a Good Thing, not a betrayal of conservative first principles. Changed days.
Matt Yglesias makes the good point that Scott Brown’s support for Romneycare didn’t prevent him becoming a conservative “icon” (a word that should be banned, incidentally) and that’s true. But there’s every difference in the world between a Massachusetts Senate Race and the national stage.
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