Noam M. Levey says that the Republicans are quietly giving up on destroying Obamacare. This is not to say you won't still hear recent Obamacare sign-up Ted Cruz and others pledging to "repeal every word of Obamacare" since that's still a good applause line with some crowds. Still, if Mr. Levey is right, the G.O.P. is realizing that goal has to go away. Too many people now have health insurance via the once-dreaded Affordable Care Act.
I'll bet they're all imagining a campaign commercial that goes like this…
There's a photo of a loving family…three gorgeous kids, their mother, their father…a voiceover says, "This could be any family but it's the Hotchkiss family of Anderson, Indiana…"
The image of just the father fades out. "These children lost their father last month. He had [name of disease] and he lost his health insurance…"
Dissolve to photo of Republican incumbent seeking re-election. "And how did he lose his health insurance? Because [name of candidate] and others like him/her voted to take it away…" Bonus points if they then cut to news footage of candidate vowing to kill Obamacare.
Would this be fair? As fair as most of what we see in campaign ads.