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    • Romney Rails Against President's Policies

      Former Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney railed against President Obamas number one domestic priority, health care reform, in an exclusive interview on Fox News Sunday. In Washington today, among President Obama and many liberals, there's a view that if there's a problem in America, government can solve it best. And the example, of course, is health care. We do have problems in health care, but the idea that government can step in and take over the health care system, and tell insurers and providers and doctors and hospitals how to do a better job -- that, in my view, is as silly as saying that we want to have the folks who run the post office and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and Amtrak running one-fifth of our economy. The former Massachusetts Governor alsodefended his own statewide health care plan that was made law during his time in office. Romney was quick to point out what he sees as some key differences between his plan and the one being proposed by the White House. There's a big difference between what we did and what President Obama is doing. What we did, I think, is the ultimate conservative plan. We said people have to take responsibility for getting insurance, if they can afford it, or paying their own way. No more free-riders. And we solved this at the state level, not a federal plan, but a state plan. Governor Romney also was critical of President Obamas handling of the USs image on the world stage. He said, The president made an enormous error in the beginning of his administration by going across the world, starting in Muslim lands, and saying that America has been derisive, dismissive, arrogant, that we have not listened to the concerns of others, that America has dictated to other nations. However Romney did praise some aspects of the Presidents national security strategy. I can tell you that I am glad that the president reversed course in Iraq. He didn't pull our troops out like he said during the campaign. He likewise supported our surge efforts in Afghanistan, having voted against the surge in Iraq. And I'm glad also that he has extended the Patriot Act. On his 2008 run for the Republican Presidential nomination, Governor Romney said his campaign effort revealed to him one condition that must be met in order to win. You've got to make sure that the message that is your heart and soul breaks through all of the clutter that comes in the debates, all the questions you get there. The ads that you run have to make sure they're on target. Finally when asked about his own political future, specifically a possible 2012 Presidential run, Romney said this, I don't really have the pros and cons laid out yet, Chris. It's something which we won't have to decide until sometime after the November elections.

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