Chutzpah

As demonstrated earlier today by Mitt Romney, on Fox News:

And right now, there's a lot of anger in Massachusetts, among independents in particular, about the Obama health care plan.

Let's give credit where credit's due: Mitt Romney knows when to hop on a bandwagon, and having the benefit of choices not available to the family dog, when to dive off. He was happy to take author's credit for a health reform bill partially force-fed to him by the Democratic-owned legislature, and realizing he stood scant chance of reelection, he left poor Kerry Healey to take the beating from Hopenchange (beta version) so he could move on to more gratifying projects.

Like a campus Marxist who maintains that socialism would succeed if only some imaginary country would practice "true socialism," Romney could no doubt give a long list of artful dodges for why his version of ObamaCare is far from the same thing as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi's version of ObamaCare. There is some distance to be sure, but you need a a vernier caliper to measure it. Now that the Tea Partiers are massing outside town with tar and pitchforks, one can understand Romney's eagerness to proclaim "ceci n'est pas une pipe."