Huntsman On Romney And Health Care

New GOP candidate John Huntsman, the former governor of Utah, is now blasting Mitt Romney's credibility on healthcare.  Which is funny, because "Romneycare," enacted during Mittens' stint as governor in Massachusetts, has reduced the uninsured rate in MA to 1.9%, compared to the whopping 14% in Huntsman's home state of Utah.

"The question was, when someone who passed and signed that particular law is talking about free market health care, do they have credibility? Otherwise, governors can do whatever they want to do, whatever the aspirations of the people in their state dictate, they can move in that direction. I think the answer was, he would have little credibility talking about market-based health care plans having signed onto that."

I was hoping Huntsman's stance on civil unions would mean that he would be willing to run as a moderate, but now those hopes have kind of been dashed.  The poor guy is clearly just yet another wingnut.

Mitt Romney Launches Presidential Campaign, Attacks Barack Obama

Having secured the teenage fangbanger vote, Romney felt confident enough today to launch his presidential campaign with a speech denouncing sitting President Barack Obama.

"A few years ago, Americans did something that was, actually, very much the sort of thing Americans like to do: We gave someone new a chance to lead, someone we hadn't known for very long, who didn't have much of a record but promised to lead us to a better place...At the time, we didn't know what sort of a president he would make...Now, in the third year of his four-year term, we have more than promises and slogans to go by. Barack Obama has failed America."


*yawn*



There's something inevitably weak about a campaign if its only selling point is "I'm not that guy!"

Mitt Romney Loves Soft-Core Teen Porn, Distances Self From Vampires

Mitt Romney wants you to know he's just like millions of teenage girls (and me, I'm sad to say) in that he's read the Twilight books.

"'I mean I like the Twilight series. I thought it was fun,' Romney said. 'I don't like vampires personally, I don't know any but you know my granddaughter was reading it and I thought, well this looks like fun so I read that.'"

While there are many things wrong with this statement, I think it's extra hilarious that he makes a point of telling people he doesn't associate with vampires.  This will clearly win him the nomination-- when I think of Michele Bachmann, I think "bloodsucker."

This brings to mind a more important question-- when is OAQ favorite Taylor Lautner going to go "Brokeback" and do gay-for-pay?  Inquiring minds want to know!