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11 Nov 2009 06:43 pm
The Right's Answer To John Kerry, Ctd
Responding to Reihan, Larison makes his pick:
What the war was for Democrats in 2004, health care legislation and
bailouts will be for the Republicans in 2012. Romney fits the Kerry
mold perfectly, and like Kerry he will be forced by the strength of the
primary challenge from some Dean-like representative of the “Republican
wing of the Republican Party” to run away from his record on health
care and bailouts. In fact, Romney has already been trying to make
people forget that he favored the bailouts when it mattered, and no
doubt he will engage in some of his typical dishonesty when confronted
with the question of his record of support for health care mandates.
Like Kerry, he will have zero credibility in opposing most of the
President’s agenda, which means that Romney’s already fairly strange
focus on foreign policy and national security may have to become the
centerpiece of his campaign to distract attention from his record of
signing off on universal health care in Massachusetts and endorsing
deeply unpopular bailouts of Wall Street. For all of the ridicule he
received, Kerry nearly won, but I doubt that Romney would be able to do
as well as Kerry did unless economic conditions worsen severely.
Plus: Romney makes Kerry seem almost authentic.
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