Rick Perry Calls On Mitt Romney To 'Repudiate' His Health Care Plan (VIDEO)

Recently reelected Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) continued his media tour for his new book on Fox News on Monday, railing against progressivism and claiming that Americans' alleged opposition to Obama's health care overhaul will hurt potential GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney due to his past connection to a similar program.

From Perry's interview with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News:

VAN SUSTEREN: Is there any way you could ever support Governor Mitt Romney in light of the fact that the Massachusetts health care program is so similar to the national health care plan?

PERRY: I think it's a problem to go -- if he were to stand up and say "You know what, this was a program that didn't work, and I wish I hadn't tried it" -- I think that would help him substantially.

But the fact is: they are so similar that it is going to be a major anchor unless he stands up and repudiates that approach.

Though it's not the first time Perry has noted potential complications for a Romney 2012 run because of the current placement of health care reform in GOP crosshairs, President Obama also recently took a thinly-veiled jab at the former Bay State Governor for similarities in their health care blueprints.

"We thought that if we shaped a bill that wasn't that different from bills that had previously been introduced by Republicans, including a Republican Governor in Massachusetts who's now running for president, that we would be able to find some common ground there," Obama said on CBS's "60 Minutes" over the weekend. "And we just couldn't."

If the GOP agenda continues to trend toward demands for a full repeal or serious revamping of the still unfurling health care reform bill, Romney can expect to continue to get pounded by Republicans and Democrats alike who will attempt to exploit the clear weakness of a candidate who beat Obama in a recent theoretical face-off.

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[dlo2]

12:58 PM on 11/19/2010

40 million+ uninsured Americans, 60 million+ underinsured Americans, increasing stats on medical bankruptcies, Texas with the worst record in the nation for uninsured residents...historic unemployment, decreasing access to bank credit for small businesses who might employ the unemployed and provide some respite for the un-insured and under insured populace.

Perry is profoundly deficient in valued, admirable human qualities and signals to all Americans that we must guard against electing such mindless beings to public office.

[WhereIsTheTruth]

12:54 AM on 11/11/2010

In spite of his lunacy, Perry used to be easy on the eyes. What happened? Oh, yeah...refer to my first words...

[ibsteve2u]

12:13 AM on 11/11/2010

Guess the right has become jaded...Americans dying in distant lands is no longer enough. Heck of a country I'm living in...one that not only can empower the true "natural born killers" that are the Republicans, but also point them at our fellow Americans.

You can't tell me that Republicans like Perry are unaware that what they seek - the destruction of government health care assistance anywhere and everywhere - will result in the needless deaths of thousands to millions of Americans.

Not to mention their clamor for the destruction of all other forms of government assistance, such as "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families".

Here's hoping it starts raining magic wands with which American can either conjure up a whole lot of jobs or eliminate a whole lot of Republicans...

[ThirdSection]

11:49 PM on 11/10/2010

Rick, don't mess with Massachusetts!

[SilentSolidarity]

11:24 PM on 11/10/2010

San Diego zoo has been searching for that chimpazee for years! We found it and it became Governor of Texas!

[rosiebond007]

09:47 PM on 11/10/2010

Has Rick Perry put together a Healthcare Plan for America?
Does he speak from any experience at all?

Maybe Romney could be a little more knowlegeable on the Healthcare score.

Some people are just way too arrogant !

[liberalbug]

09:27 PM on 11/10/2010

Rick Perry fancies himself the next POTUS. Lord help us if that ever comes to pass.

[sprootles]

08:34 PM on 11/10/2010

Pssst....Rick Perry...you're too extreme for America. You don't have a shot at being president.

Wingnut.

[rh654]

08:05 PM on 11/10/2010

The Far Right Social Conservatives simply won't accept a Mormon.

[liberalbug]

09:28 PM on 11/10/2010

And the rest of the country simply won't accept a whacko like Perry. It's quite the conundrum for the GOP. The GOP primaries are going to be brutal in 2011/12. It's gonna be a "I hate government more than you" love fest.

[SilentSolidarity]

11:28 PM on 11/10/2010

"Far Right Social Conservatives"

Such a long word. Why don't you say "American Talibani?"

[ThirdSection]

11:56 PM on 11/10/2010

Simplify it even further to talibagger.

[lithium451]

07:48 PM on 11/10/2010

Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Jim Demint, Sarah Palin...no wonder Obama is sleeping well.

As a Texan I'm going to relish watching Perry deflated as his ridiculous ambitions are dismantled.

[sprootles]

08:34 PM on 11/10/2010

Can I watch with you? I've got hot chocolate!

[lithium451]

08:44 PM on 11/10/2010

Sure, maybe we can expense it to his Texas Emerging Technology Fund if we pretend we'll vote for him!

[Layman23]

07:41 PM on 11/10/2010

And thus Rick Perry makes his first move for 2012 presidential bid.

[Coppelia1189]

07:35 PM on 11/10/2010

Romney has other serious problems. He'll never be embraced by the Tea Party. There's only one standard bearer for the Tea Party cause: Sarah Palin. I'm no fan of hers period, but she's the only acceptable choice for them and could get the nomination if she chose to run. You will notice that the Republican establishment has been bad-mouthing her for several weeks now. The more they do that, the more she'll get urged to run.

[Old Sarge]

07:57 PM on 11/10/2010

My hopes and best wishes are with Sarah in the GOP primaries, and I'd like to go ahead and send my early condolences for the complete skull dragging she's going to take in the general election. Probably just wishful thinking, though.

[sprootles]

08:35 PM on 11/10/2010

There won't be anything left of her during the primaries because Rove will have filleted her...

[SpencersMom]

07:32 PM on 11/10/2010

Romney's biggest problem will be the 4-letter word that ends with "C-K"

B-E-C-K

With Beck as the public face of Mormonism, Romney's future is bleak. So sad... HA!

[danusgram]

07:09 PM on 11/10/2010

romenycare lol

[AJH]

06:43 PM on 11/10/2010

And RIck Perry's run for the presidency begins.

[ydrittmann]

09:59 PM on 11/10/2010

Or is out of the closet, so to speak.