Health care reform, as we know, has become hugely controversial and the GOP has unified in total opposition to any meaningful reform, seeing a plum opportunity to inflict major political damage on both President Obama and Congressional Democrats up for reelection in 2010.
A dirty little secret, however, is that Mitt Romney (with major help from Ted Kennedy, of all people) basically passed universal health care for citizens of Massachusetts a few years ago.
Who cares if it was courageous on Romney's part and helped hundreds of thousands of people get access to health care--Pawlenty sees a raw political opportunity that plays to the base of the Republican party who are critical to the 2012 nominating process in the primaries and caucuses...
In the video here, Pawlenty doesn't come right out and say "Romney" or "Massachusetts" but as the article says anyone with a political IQ above room temperature knows who he's referring to.
2012: Game on.
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