Message #20022

[uselesslegs]

As I remember, well before the lead up to who was going to get the Dem nomination for President in 2008, the GOP knowing full well that whoever got the nod was going to make Healthcare part of their platform, made damn sure that ANY hint (no matter how small) of Single Payer as a possible healthcare route would be met with Jupiter size resistance and scare tactics.  "Oh My Gawd, socialist hell! The *Free Markets* in insurance will collapse and it will rain blooooddd!"

But as Kell said, I'm not so sure President Obama would have gone that route anyway, even if it had not been scare tactic'ed to death.  He's a moderate first and foremost, despite all the hub-bub to the contrary.  Any moderate, given how far right the right is, could never escape being labeled anything but uber liberal or uber progressive.  The criteria is so far fetched, if you don't think of the constitution at least 10 times a day, you're basically a dirty treasonous liberal or progressive.