“The health bill that Governor Romney signed into law this month has tremendous potential to effect major change in the American health system.” — Newt Gingrich in an April 2006 newsletter found by the Wall Street Journal, voicing enthusiasm for Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health-care law. This damages both Romney and Gingrich, for it makes Gingrich look like a hypocrite for denouncing the plan, and it reminds everyone that Romney was the founding father of Obamacare.
The latest Gallup tracking poll still finds Newt Gingrich clinging to lead nationally among Republican voters with 26%, followed by Mitt Romney at 23%, Ron Paul at 12%, Rick Perry at 8%, Michele Bachmann at 6%, Rick Santorum at 3% and Jon Huntsman at 1%
In the same tracking poll, President Obama’s numbers have entered net positive territory at 47% approve, 45% disapprove, for the first time in a while.
Mainstream journalists are starting to pay attention to Ron Paul and his platform. Which is good, because why it is nice to investigate stupid racist newsletters from 20 years ago, the more important thing is to expose his actual radical ideas to scruntiny. Since he is a plausible Iowa caucus win away from being the frontrunner for the GOP nomination.