Powerline Blog Endorses Father of Nationalized RomneyCare for President

Time to throw down with Willard:

The purpose of a political party is to win elections. It would be terminally stupid for the Republican Party to nominate a candidate whose weaknesses more or less guarantee defeat when it has, readily at hand, a candidate who can win. Ideological movements are another animal entirely. The purpose of the conservative movement is to advance conservative ideals, not necessarily to win elections for a particular party. Some conservative ideologues may choose to argue for a purer candidate (although I am not sure who that would be) in service of the long-run interests of the movement. But that is not the role of the Republican Party. The goal of the Republican Party is to win in 2012.

So: I endorse Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee for president in 2012. I think he can win, and I think there is a real chance that he could be a great president. Perhaps the man and the hour will meet, as with Churchill in 1940 and Reagan in 1980. But at a bare minimum, Romney can beat Barack Obama, and will be an infinitely better president. The time has come for Republicans to coalesce behind their best candidate.

Powerline Blog

I seem to remember great outrage at the enactment of Nationalized RomneyCare just a while ago. The wingers at Powerline actually compared Health Insurance to Slavery - Remember Willard is the father of Nationalized RomneyCare:

At least since the conclusion of the Civil War, the Democrats' war on freedom has never been more brazen. Indeed, there is a tie that binds the Democratic Party of the antebellum era with today's Democratic Party:

It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.

Abraham Lincoln said that, on more than one occasion, and he knew what he was talking about.

I guess this would mean the Willard Romney is a Tyrant who seeks to bestride the people of his nation and live by the fruit of their labor. This very well may be true about Willard, but not because of Health Insurance reform. You see actually, Lincoln was not talking about Health Insurance or leading a rebellion in the southern states over health insurance back in the day. He was talking about Slavery. Slavery and Health Insurance are not the same things. Winguts. What can you do?