Romney Lessons News Today

Odonnell last night. >> in talking about your thoughts of what happens tuesday and what it means down the road, it sounds like youre planning for a message beyond new jersey. is that a fair assessment, listening to you today? >> im not planning for it, i just think its inevitable. people look at elections and they try to discern things from them about what they mean at that moment and what they mean for the future. and i think that what people are going to see is so unusual for what our party ha...

Campaign and as a centerpiece of obama care over the last several years saying time and time again that fundamental to his plan was the right people would have to keep their insurance plan, and he knew that was not the case. he could know it by looking at massachusetts and seeing people there lost insurance. he could have learned those lessons and told the people the truth, but he didnt. he told people they could keep their plan. and, you know, it was nbc news that said, look, some 6 million peo...

>> why do you reject the compliment from president obama this week when he says obama care based on romney care and thats the right way to go? >> well, i think the president failed to learn the lessons that came from the experience in massachusetts. first of all, the massachusetts experience was a state-run plan. the right way to deal with health care reform is not to have a one size fits all plan thats imposed on all the states but recognizing the differences between different states and their ...

Whats the healthiest and best way for them to grow so that they really become cauldrons of prosperity and cities of opportunity? what we have found is that if that family is moved into safe, clean affordable housing, places that have access to great school systems, access to jobs and multiple transportation modes then the neighborhood begins to thrive and then really really take off. the oxygen of community redevelopment is financing. and all this rebuilding that happened could not have happened...

But heres what you said to meet the press back in 2007 about the mandate. i want to play it and get your reaction. >> i think youre going to find that when its all said and done after all these states, laboratories of democracy, get the chance to try their own plans, that those who follow the path we pursued will find its the best path and well have a nation that takes the mandate approach. >> you dont believe all states should adopt this, but you do believe all states should take a mandate appr...

Destroying obama care. and he also said hospitals will go out of businesses. if you look at big hospitals in states with lots of retirees, lots of elderly people like florida the hospital system must have this money. its free money. for the first five years its free money. >> it is free money. >> and turning it down is intant sanity. and the idea of any governor doing the opposite of what shes doing is crazy. >> which is why seven republican governors have also supported medicaid. >> this is one...

Go out of businesses. if you look at big hospitals in states with lots of retirees, lots of elderly people like florida the hospital system must have this money. its free money. for the first five years its free money. >> it is free money. >> and turning it down is insanity. and the idea of any governor doing the opposite of what shes doing is crazy. >> which is why seven republican governors have also supported medicaid. >> this is one of those things where the national republican like frank lu...