The Republican National Committee has to run someone for President next year, and it honestly could not think of anyone except Mitt Romney. His inevitability was announced sufficiently early and sufficiently often for the prophecy to fulfil itself. He won't win, but he is not intended to. He is intended to stop the gap for David Petraeus in 2016. Petraeus is a serving member of the Obama Administration, and will remain so until the day of his Inauguration, if any.
Under normal circumstances, the healthcare reform legislation would have been supported by 10 to 15 Republican Senators, possibly 20. It suits them, and such as them, down to the ground to run for President the man who gave socialised medicine to Massachusetts, where he had previously run for the Senate from Ted Kennedy's left.
By 2016, socialised medicine will be far too entrenched for anyone to suggest repealing it. On the contrary, the demand will be for an end to government subsidising of the health insurance companies, easily achieved by dusting down the abandoned House Bill with its public option.
And with its Stupak Amendment, which, when combined with the public option, would have made abortion practically impossible. Yet without going anywhere near Roe vs Wade. Which matters more, making abortion practically impossible, or sticking to a particular theory of constitutional interpretation? If there is any life left in fusionism by 2016, then there will be none after that question had been posed.
That will be the proposed change on which the GOP will contest the 2016 Election. Quite possibly win. And, if not matched by the Democrats, deserve to win.
It has all been arranged.
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