Romney admits he co-authored ObamaCare, republican voters turn against him

Conservatives finally learned today that Mitt Romney co-authored ObamaCare when he was governor of Massachusetts, and many are going out of their minds over it. Although this information has been common knowledge for years among those outside the republican base, those who only believe what their party tells them found out the hard way today when Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul attempted to deflect the latest controversy. It surfaced this week that Romney’s strip-mining of a healthy company led to the death of an employee’s wife after he’d been laid off by Romney for profit and she’d lost her health insurance, contributing to her death from cancer, which would have been preventable if she hadn’t lost her access to health care. Saul quipped that she wouldn’t have died if she’d lived in Massachusetts, thanks to the “RomneyCare” which he instituted while in charge there; the “ObamaCare” which was championed by President Barack Obama on a national level was based nearly word for word on the plan which Romney had drawn up on a state level. And while conservative voters appeared to have no problem with the fact that Romney’s lust for money got a woman killed, they flipped their lid when they heard the Romney camp finally admit that which they had long been told wasn’t true by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and other professional liars: that Romney did in fact coauthor ObamaCare. Oops…

The notion that any voters could be against health care reform which benefits literally everyone and has a taxpayer cost of zero os a bizarre one. But the republican party has been insisting since 2008 that ObamaCare was a “socialist” and unconstituional attempt at undermining our way of life, an attempt by an outsider to destroy the United States from within. And now that they’ve finally learned what the rest of us have known all along – that Romney is at least as responsible for ObamCare as Obama himself – the insane rage they’ve been holding inside for four years toward Obama for “destroying America” with ObamaCare is now being spewed at Romney as well. Republican party leaders are demanding that Andrea Saul resign so that Romney can disavow himself from her (entirely truthful) words, and leading republican journalists are suggesting that Romney just lost the election. Not because he got a woman killed. But because, in his campaign’s attempt to spin that story, they inadvertently hung their imaginary albatross around their own guy’s neck…

This is what happens when a political party is built on telling outrageous lies aimed at driving its naive followers insane with misguided rage. Romney can’t take credit for the one thing he’s ever done right, because his base has been falsely convinced that ObamaCare is the antichrist. Every horrifying thing Romney has done in this campaign and in his evil lifetime doesn’t matter to republican voters. Not the pitifully embarrassing overseas trip in which every foreign leader he met with publicly rebuked him for being an offensive idiot. Not the fact that he paid a 15% tax rate last year and apparently paid no taxes at all for the decade prior. Not the fact that his entire living has consisted of strip-mining healthy companies and raiding pension funds and sending jobs overseas and laying off Americans so he can pad his own offshore bank accounts. None of that bothers republican voters, because they’ve been told none of it matters, and by definition they’re the type who believe every word their party says. But because their party also told them that ObamaCare was an anti-American conspiracy aimed at destroying our way of life, they now despise Romney because his campaign admitted that he helped reform health care. You reap what you sow, and the republican party has been sowing lie-based insanity for twenty years. Finally, the monster they’ve created appears ready to feast on itself.