Romney is a problematic candidate for the GOP, something they refuse to recognize. RomneyCare is so much like ObamaCare that it's going to be really hard for Romney to distinguish himself from Obama since the health care issue will be the strongest debate. By continually forcing Romney on conservatives, the progressive arm of the GOP has, inadvertently, aided Obama in the general election. He can run on the "we're pretty much alike, so vote for the devil you know" platform. Romney can win the general, but only if he can keep the debate on the economy and even then, I think it's going to be another close election. If Chicago gets its act together, Obama will win, same as Kennedy did in 1960.

Well, I'm glad Gingrich will remain in the race to keep Mitt from pandering to the progressive arm of the GOP, but I think all actual conservatives need to be honest with themselves. We do have to vote for whomever the GOP nominee is. We can't afford to split the vote by going 3rd party and give Obama four more years. We're $16 TRILLION in debt, nearly four times what we were when he took office. The practical choice needs to be made when the principled choice isn't available. "Other than Romney" (Santorum, Gingrich, Paul) could win if they pooled their delegates behind one candidate, but realistically Romney will be the nominee. He's not my first choice, but he's better than Obama.

Yes, but the needed reform would really upset many people. Open insurance across state lines, switch to a reimbursement system and do away with insurance for basic care -- replacing it with catastrophic care and medical savings accounts. The current system of insurance is convenient and makes you feel secure, but it got us where we are and we need to scrap it completely while also scraping ObamaCare.

My coworker doesn't see that her $100,000 in surgeries is the reason our rates have gone up, but as a self-funded policy, our agency is required to produce a report that shows our costs and she accounts for 1/3 of the payouts for the last two years. If she'd been a diabetic or suffering joint degradation because of being grossly overweight, I'd be more willing to pay for it, but she needed to lose 50 lbs and I know it's possible to lose that without the surgery. That sort of disconnect is rampant in America and will reman so until we reform to a reimbursement system. Had my coworker had to pay upfront for the surgeries and wait for reimbursement instead of having her coworkers pay for it, she'd have hit the gym instead.

The reason our rates are so high is that our medical costs are so high because insurance allows us to not pay attention to the costs. Case in point -- my company insurance is self-funded. We have a worker who got a gastric bypass abotu two years ago. She only needed to lose abotu 50 lbs, but she forced it and got it paid for. This summer she got a tummy tuck and breast reduction, again paid for by our insurance. She was talking about it and I pointed out that we're now all paying $75 a paycheck for health insurance because she wanted to look good. I lost 40 lbs in the same period of time through diet and exercise and didn't incraese our health insurance rates at all.

Apparently, Obama's narcissim is riding a high tide today. Narcissists really believe their own hype. In Obama's case, I think his handlers also believe it. When I was a poli sci minor during the Reagan admin, there was a theory that his policies were sheer lunacy, but they worked because Reagan made people believe they would work. Mass hypnosis, I guess. I think Obama's folks subscribe to that theory. That and there's a whole mechanism behind him that we don't see and the press doesn't seem to be investigating. What happens if he actually loses the 2012 election? Now there's something to consider.

I don't think he's worried about relection and that should worry us. So what if he loses? If he just sets the election results aside because we the people don't know how to govern ourselves, then there's no problem. Of course, he'd have to be sure of the military's support. Is he? IDK and that worries me.

No, he believes he's the answer we're waiting for. Narcissists are always fun to watch, but we never want them to have the power of the presidency.

Examples, please!

Hopefully, Mittens will not be the nominee. Because of RomneyCare, he cannot win against Obama.