Strassel On the RomneyCare Millstone

Kim Strassel explores Mitt Romney's role in the Scott Brown earthquake. She rightly gives Romney credit for his deft assistance to the upstart Brown, and she doesn't shy away from potential "millstone" around Romney's neck for his presidential ambitions - RomneyCare. As readers may know, I have mapped out a path for Mitt Romney to take on the Dems in 2012. As well, I have addressed the flaw of RomneyCare. Although not as full throated as I would like (or Strassel), I think the repudiation of RomneyCare has been established in the adoption of the Hubbard/Cogan/Kessler plan. Romney can very easily say that RomneyCare was what was thought to be best for Massachusetts at the time, but that for the nation there is a better way in Hubbard/Cogan/Kessler. Is the electorate really that hung up on past policy failures? In America, you can admit to a mistake, adopt a powerful symbol that you've learned from that mistake, and still win elections. Romney should do this and the putative millstone of RomneyCare will hardly hold him back.