Rick Santorum Was Right About Mitt Romney

Last February, Rick Santorum said this with regard to Health Care Reform and the Individual Mandate: "The problem is, we have a candidate . . . who is the worst possible person in the field to put up on this most fundamental issue in this campaign, and that is Gov. Romney."  Andrea Saul, Mitt Romney’s campaign press secretary, proved Santorum right today. 

Saul is under fire from the Radical Right for stating, in response to an ad wherein a laid-off steelworker blames Romney for his family losing health care:

“To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care.”

Oops. In a normal universe, it would be no big deal for a presidential candidate's press secretary to tout her boss's signature legislative achievement during his only stint in political office. In fact, one would expect such a thing to happen on a regular basis.  But not so in the Tea-Bagger Universe.

The Right Wing Extremists in this country -- aka the Republican Party (given that there are no moderates left in the GOP) -- are up in arms over Saul's comment.  This is what Erick Erickson at Redstate had to say about it:

[T]he Romney campaign decided to sabotage itself with a mind numbingly bit of spin that may mark the day the Romney campaign died. * * * Conservatives have put aside their distrust of Romney on this issue in the name of beating Barack Obama. They thought he and his campaign team had gotten the message and the hints. Consider the scab picked, the wound opened, and the distrust trickling out again.

About the only thing more stupid in terms of building bridges with the right would be to say something nice about fetal stem cell research.  Start your watches for that one!

The Washington Examiner’s Phillip Klein tweeted this today: “Not sure if the Romney camp realizes what a huge opening they’ve just created for Ds on Obamacare.”

The only thing that would make all this GOP anger even more hilarious is if the whole Individual Mandate concept was originally a Republican idea.  Oh wait -- I forgot:  The whole fucking thing was originally a Republican idea.