Mitt Romney, who actually passed a pretty good health care plan in Massachusetts, is now required to say that he is against his own plan because Obama likes it too much. Then again, Romney is happy to repudiate old positions; he never met an idea he didn't love to hate after he loved to love it.
But you see the dynamic - any time a Republican candidate says anything sane, he (or she, if Michele Bachmann had ever done anything like this) is immediately a target of the other candidates, all of whom enjoy saying insane and loathsome things. You'd think that, what with all the polling nonsense, one of them might catch on that if they zigged into the sanity lane, they might gain some support.
The Iraq war officially ended last week - a terrible episode in America's history. Polls say that almost everyone in the country is happy that the war is over. However, of the Republican candidates, only Ron Paul is glad the Iraq adventure is over. The other candidates want, guess what, another war, this one with Iran.