Romney Pretty Extreme, Too

Yesterday I wrote a post asserting that Newt is more extreme than Ron Paul. Today I'm going to make a similar argument with respect to Mitt Romney.

Ron Paul believes that our health care system will get better if the government gets out of the way and lets the private sector work.

Mitt Romney believes that a government "solution" on health care is not only okay, it's a perfectly "conservative" option. We already know that his Massachusetts health care plan, dubbed RomneyCare, was used as a blueprint for ObamaCare. Today, Romney argues that a big-government solution to health care that requires individuals to purchase health insurance is a perfectly "conservative" plan... if implemented by the states.
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/politics-elections/200793-romney-doubles-down-on-argument-that-state-health-mandate-is-conservative

Requiring people to have health insurance is "conservative," GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney told MSNBC on Wednesday, but only if states do it.

The argument aims to improve Romney's appeal to Republican voters concerned about the health care reform plan he signed into law as governor of Massachusetts in 2006. The Massachusetts law contains an individual mandate similar to the one in President Obama's health care law, which conservatives despise.

"Personal responsibility," Romney said, "is more conservative in my view than something being given out for free by government."

Really? But if the government is forcing people to take an action, then it's not "personal responsibility," now is it?


This makes it perfectly clear that Romney is not, in any way, shape, or form, a fan of a small government with limited powers. He thinks that big-government solutions to every day problems are just fine and dandy... an indication to me that he will continue in the footsteps of Bush and Obama, by adopting government-controlled solutions to any problem that may arise. The fact that many of these problems were in fact CREATED by past government actions doesn't matter to him.

So which candidate is more extreme, the one who is perfectly fine with imposing government-run solutions to problems, or the candidate who wants to let the free market work just like it does in so many other areas?

It seems to me that Mitt Romney holds the more extreme position, here.

What do YOU think?