David Pakman: 'Leaked Mitt Romney Emails Confirm He Supported Individual Mandate'

Source:David Pakman- Governor Mitt Romney (Republican, Massachusetts) running for President on CNN.

"Recently uncovered emails show Mitt Romney was hugely personally supportive of the individual mandate for health insurance while Governor of Massachusetts.

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From David Pakman

If you want to know why Mitt Romney was for it before he was against it, I'll tell you anyway. In 2005-06, Mitt Romney is still Governor of Massachusetts, perhaps the bluest state in the Union, with the most Democrats in the country, per-capita, with a State Legislature that's like 4-1 Democratic. But, he was already planning to run for President, perhaps as early as 2008 when then President George W. Bush wouldn't be eligible to run for President again. 

There's only so much that any governor regardless of the state can do by themself, even through executive order. Which means he or she, has to be able to work with the Legislature, to get most of their agenda passed and be able to take credit for major accomplishments that are long lasting. 

Health care was a big issue back in the mid-2000s, as it's today and I'm thinking then Governor Romney saw health care reform as an issue where he could get ahead of the rest of the Republican Party and potential Republican presidential candidates and say that he was a Republican reformer, like a Teddy Roosevelt perhaps be able to take that issue away from Senator John McCain. If you look at the RomneyCare plan or the ObamaCare plan, it's basically the same plan, with a lot of Republican reforms in it: 

Individual mandate 

Patients Bill of Rights

Tax credit for lower-middle-income workers to buy health insurance 

Private market for health insurance and the exchanges 

But go up to 2012, Mitt Romney is not only no longer Governor of Deep Blue Massachusetts, but he's running nationally now as a presidential candidate in the Republican Party and will be their presidential nominee in 2012. 

The Tea Party Populist-Right now runs the Republican Party, by-in-large, meaning he can't get elected President without their votes. So now Mitt is running around the country for President, while at the same time he's running away from his own political career and career in government, pre-2009 and pretending what he did before 2009, never actually happened. I guess Mitt is courting the blind and death, as well as politically retarded vote for President.