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RUSH: Now this mandate business. This has gotten out of hand, too, \u2019cause it\u2019s out there now that Newt supported the individual mandate as recently as 2009. It\u2019s being reported that Newt supported Obamacare, the individual mandate and Obamacare in 2009. Some people are saying, “Well, he couldn\u2019t have done that because Obamacare didn\u2019t exist in 2009. It hadn\u2019t been written yet.” That\u2019s a bit of a stretch. The fact of the matter is that the Heritage Foundation at first (and Newt and Romney) are all on record, at some point in their careers, as supporting the individual mandate which is what the lawsuit against Obamacare is about. But of the three, only Romney has actually enacted it into law, supported it to the point that he\u2019s put it into law.<\/p>\n
So if somebody proposed, “Hey, you know what? We got too many free riders. Everybody ought to have their own health insurance.” So conceptually it sounded good. It sounded conservative. So you could say, “I support that because that makes me conservative.” Only later when it\u2019s too late, you figure out it\u2019s nothing about individual responsibility. It\u2019s a violation of the Constitution, because the thing comes about by virtue of the government demanding that you buy it or you go to jail or pay a fine. Now, why somebody hasn\u2019t said, “You know what? I goofed up.” Well, the Heritage Foundation has.<\/p>\n
They have distanced themselves from their original support of the health care mandate a long time ago. I don\u2019t know why one of these guys hasn\u2019t said this. Well, Santorum never did support it unless that 1994 story that came out last week happens to be true, but that\u2019s another thing. It would have been so simple to say, “You know what? I got caught up in this. Who doesn\u2019t believe in paying your own way? We, as conservatives, believe in paying our own way. We believe that everybody should shoulder their own responsibilities. But I made a mistake. I was wrong.” And then get rid of it. It\u2019s gone. And then every time, “Well, you supported the mandate…”<\/p>\n
But then the story comes out you supported it as recently as 2009. It\u2019s a little too late to do that, but maybe not. But I\u2019m relatively sure that\u2019s what sucked all these people in at first. All these conservatives, I\u2019m sure what suckered them about this was the conservative-sounding appeal of it. Only later when people see the rest of Obamacare and then find out that the mandate is truly a mandate. And, remember, a lot of inside-the-Beltway conservatives are people that believe in government involvement in stuff, whether to break it or fix it. They just do! A lot of insiders, a lot of Washington career conservatives think government is prime agent, if you will.<\/p>\n
You and I, of course, who don\u2019t dwell there, who rarely visit there, don\u2019t look at Washington as anything other than an obstacle and the problem. Now, it isn\u2019t unconstitutional if a state does it. So Romney could say, “There\u2019s nothing unconstitutional about my suggesting a mandate.” The problem Romney\u2019s got on Obamacare and Romney is that they\u2019re identical — and it\u2019s gonna come out, and if nobody else brings it out Obama\u2019s gonna bring it out. They\u2019re identical. Right down to the architects, to the authors of the two. They\u2019re identical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Now this mandate business. This has gotten out of hand, too, \u2019cause it\u2019s out there now that Newt supported the individual mandate as recently as 2009. It\u2019s being reported that Newt supported Obamacare, the individual mandate and Obamacare in 2009. Some people are saying, “Well, he couldn\u2019t have done that because Obamacare didn\u2019t exist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n