Rick Santorum came into The Brody File studio today in D.C. and told us that when it comes to Obamacare the, “Republican establishment in this city wants to nominate somebody that will take away that issue.”
Santorum is at the Supreme Court today to make his voice heard against Obamacare. He says it’s no accident that Romney is as far away from the Supreme Court as possible today (he’s in California).
Watch below. Read the full transcription as well. The full interview will air on this week’s 30-minute Brody File television show.
Rick Santorum: It's the blockbuster issue that affects almost every aspect of life that people care about, and it's what I talk about. And it's why I'm going there. And you'll notice that Mitt Romney isn't going there, and he won't talk about it. The reason is because he supported what Barack Obama did on Obamacare and wrote the blueprint in Massachusetts. And that, to me, is the biggest single issue in this race for the primary.
The Republican establishment in this city wants to nominate somebody that will take away that issue, because he supported a mandate, the same mandate in Massachusetts. And when the debate was going on in 2009, he actually came out and argued for Barack Obama to impose the same mandate in Washington D.C.
He advocated for this unconstitutional mandate that Republicans universally, and 75 percent of Americans believe, is the wrong approach. That's why I've said that Mitt Romney is uniquely disqualified in this race from taking on Barack Obama in the biggest, most central issue, on the economy, and on freedom in this country.