Former Governor Mitt Romney's official portrait in the Massachusetts State House — unveiled in 2009 — pictures him seated with various meaningful objects, including a folder on the desk behind him. That folder is a leather bill binder emblazoned with a medical seal, symbolizing the first-in-the-nation universal health care law he signed in April 2006.
It is evidence that Romney considered the health care reform law his crowning policy achievement. Yet throughout the entire Presidential campaign, he ran away from his association with it.
It is evidence that Romney considered the health care reform law his crowning policy achievement. Yet throughout the entire Presidential campaign, he ran away from his association with it.
"Romneycare" was virtually the only memorable thing Romney helped to accomplish while he was passing through as Governor of This Great Bay State and guess what? It works!
The Willow has never been a profile in courage, but to run away so entirely from his single significant legislative accomplishment simply to knock off the right wing cartoon candidates running against him in the Republican primaries was a serious miscalculation. As a result, Romney and the shifting sands on which he stood were swept out from under him and vanished in the tumbling tides.
December, 2012
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