Myth Romney campaign gaffe: Please pass the popcorn

By Comrade Misfit

So it seems that the Democrats are beating the crap out of Romney because when he was head of Bain Capital, it closed a steel mill, throwing people out of work. Those people lost their health insurance and at least one person died from untreated cancer.

So Mitten's on-duty spokes-troll takes up her verbal arsenal to defend him and offers this corker: If those workers had been in Massachusetts, they'd have had health insurance. Because, as governor, Romney enacted universal health insurance.

Except, of course, that the Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare) was modeled on the Massachusetts universal health care law (Romneycare). Which means that the Romney campaign just backed into endorsing Obamacare.

And since the Republicans have flip-flopped on the universal health insurance mandate from being "the personal responsibility of any sane adult" (when they suggested it in 1993 and later when Romneycare was enacted) to "zOMG!!!1!! Soczialism!!!1!", the conservatives are losing their collective shit.

Pass the popcorn.

(Cross-posted at Just an Earth-Bound Misfit, I.)