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Romney campaign is flailing about all over the place desperately trying to find anything that will stick. All it amounts to are lies, which are proven time and time again...and then he moves on to the next one like this "Obama's War On Religion" which is yet another BIG LIE.
Here: Was Romneycare A War On Religion?
The commercial claims that an Affordable Care Act regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide preventive health benefits like contraception undermines religious freedoms but fails to note that houses of worship and religious nonprofits are exempt from offering birth control, or that Obamas rule closely mirrors a measure included in Romneys own health reform in Massachusetts. President Obama used his healthcare plan to declare war on religion, forcing religious institutions to go against their faith, the ad says, before drawing a parallel to the Soviet Union
As governor, Romney greatly expanded access publicly-financed contraception through his 2006 health care reform law. The states Commonwealth Care, established under Romneycare, offers subsidized, low or no-cost insurance to low-income residents and provides primary and preventive care that includes family planning services and prescription contraceptives. In 2005, Romney also signed a bill that could expand the number of people who get family-planning services, including the morning-after pill and asked the Department of Health and Human Services to require Catholic hospitals to issue the morning after pill to rape victims.
In fact, the Obamacare rule Romney is now characterizing as an affront to religious liberties is very similar to a 2002 state law he tacitly supported. Like more than two dozen states across the country, Massachusetts required insurers that provide outpatient benefits to cover hormone replacement therapy and all FDA-approved contraceptive methods well before Obamacare became law. The Massachusetts rule exempts an employer that is a church or qualified church-controlled organization from the mandate, but prohibits institutions such as hospitals, universities, and nursing homes from denying their employees birth control coverage.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/08/09/663091/was-romneycare-a-war-on-religion/
Holy Backfire Twit-Man!
FSogol
(45,481 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)Ultimately, it was because the crazy vote got split in the primary, leaving it to the unrelatable, out-of-touch, former governor of a liberal state.
dmkinsey
(840 posts)Several of their other candidates were clearly worse than Romney.
Still, Romney IS terrible.
budkin
(6,701 posts)They only picked him because the rest were so extreme they knew they wouldn't have a chance with independents.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)The republican 2012 field was just an embarassment. The only two candidates that weren't complete train wrecks were Pawlenty and Huntsman, and they never stood a chance.
TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)sucks for them huh?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)nailed Mittwit to the wall for his bogus comments about welfare waivers: "blatantly false," "new depths of truth-twisting." The Gray Lady is usually not that blunt.
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)I haven't seen that one, going to go find it.
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)I'm not sure if it's the same one though.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021100519
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)that's not it
A click on the name "Jammie" whoever that is reveals they are extremely right wing in their "articles"
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)Got rid of the idiotic link...sorry!
mmonk
(52,589 posts)truebrit71
(20,805 posts)..typically you don't see the "attack on religion" ads until much, much closer to the GE when they become truly desperate because they see it as the only way to fire up the base...
Very telling...
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)he is losing it because Obama has successfully defined him.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)on the defense since day 1. I'm savoring every minute of it.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Animal Chin
(175 posts)I've been trying to get poeple to stop using the term Obamacare and start just calling it Romneycare. I wish Obama's campaign would listen! Can you imaging an Obama TV commerical listing among Obama's accomplishments that he "brought Romneycare to a national level." It might go a little against traditional marketing and campaign theory (naming one of your greatest accomplishments after your direct rival), but I don't belive those on the left would be confused by the message (i.e., they would still attribute the ACA to Obama). Those on the right's heads would explode.