Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney says the Supreme Court's health care decision has injected "greater urgency" in the presidential contest.
Charles Dharapak, Associated Press
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Donations pour in from the Republican rank-and-file. Politico's Alexander Burns reported Thursday night, "The Romney campaign has raised $3.2 million online since the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Affordable Care Act, a Romney aide tells me. The news here is that Romney's tapping into conservative small-donor enthusiasm."
Taxation becomes a more formidable issue for wooing independents. "The Supreme Court (provided) fresh political opportunities for Mitt Romney even as it handed the president a legal victory," Karen Tumulty and Nia-Malika Henderson wrote for the Washington Post. "Chief among those new lines of attack is the court’s determination that the law’s individual mandate — the penalty it would impose on people who refuse to buy insurance — amounts to a tax. … 'The most effective argument for Romney is that this is a massive tax increase that will impact hardworking Americans,' said GOP strategist Ron Bonjean, who worked for a number of Republican leaders on Capitol Hill. 'By adding the health-care tax to economic hardships people are feeling, it will quickly become a rallying cry to win over independents in battleground states.'”
President Obama loses potential "campaign scare issue." Real Clear Politic's Erin McPike reported, "Veteran GOP strategist Mike Murphy, who has advised Romney in the past, … added that the decision will keep Obama from using the Supreme Court as a 'wider campaign scare issue with independent voters.'"
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Wasn't the individual mandate Romney's idea for Mass? I've seen the video of him speaking about it back in 2006ish.
I think another way this ruling helps Romney, because it shows that Mitt was right about health care when More..
NOW the truth.
Obama the mighty Robot beats Mitt Romney at rock-paper-scissors every single time. Guess who woke-up to smell the coffee, why it's none other then (an embarrassed Utahn), Utah's Gov. Gary Herbert that boasted More..
In 2010, the same year the president got his healthcare law through Congress, Obama ripped into the Roberts court for a ruling that allowed corporations to spend unlimited money in elections.
This week the court again drew the wrath of the More..