{"id":3354,"date":"2010-01-22T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2010-01-22T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T18:05:12","slug":"where-do-brown-and-romney-go-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3354\/where-do-brown-and-romney-go-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Do Brown and Romney Go From Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While some may have seen former Massachusetts governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaking at Senator-elect Scott Brown\u2019s victory rally on Tuesday night, it may not have been apparent how deeply Romney was involved in getting Brown past the post<\/a>.\u00a0 Once again, Romney displayed a stunningly effective campaign machine that was slick, nimble, and full of money.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Brown\u2019s signature campaign issue was running against ObamaCare, which is achingly similar to RomneyCare \u2013 the one term governor\u2019s biggest legislative legacy.<\/p>\n

In less than four years, Massachusetts voters are so displeased with their state\u2019s version of universal health care that they sent a Republican to Washington to be the vote that stops ObamaCare.\u00a0 But Brown has a problem too.\u00a0 He voted for RomneyCare<\/a> while a state senator.\u00a0 Since being elected, he\u2019s said he supports expanding coverage as long as costs are reduced.\u00a0 Good luck.\u00a0 Though Brown will vote for a do-over on health care reform he is clearly signaling that he won\u2019t just be a no; rather, a yes-but.\u00a0 As in, yes, I agree we need to expand health care coverage \u2013 maybe even individually mandated universal health care coverage \u2013 but I don\u2019t like some of the elements of the Democrats\u2019 current plan.\u00a0 If that\u2019s the case, then Brown may be less a Tea Party go-er and more of a tinkerer.<\/p>\n

The same is true for Romney.\u00a0 He likes details and policy and loves to get into the weeds of government to make it run more like a business.\u00a0 Since that\u2019s his background as a highly successful turnaround artist, it makes sense.\u00a0 But that may not be the path to the Republican nomination in 2012 when so many voters want leaders who will say no to tinkering, and yes to rolling back federal programs, bureaucracies, and spending.\u00a0 Now that Romney has helped elect Brown, maybe it\u2019s time for Brown to show Romney whether a Massachusetts Republican can gain a national following being a yes-but politician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While some may have seen former Massachusetts governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaking at Senator-elect Scott Brown\u2019s victory rally on Tuesday night, it may not have been apparent how deeply Romney was involved in getting Brown past the post.\u00a0 Once again, Romney displayed a stunningly effective campaign machine that was slick, nimble, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[465,160,725],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care-reform","tag-mitt-romney","tag-scott-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3358,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}