Allah has an interesting post about this nugget of news today:
In a development that could have ramifications for the 2012 presidential race, Jon Kingsdale, the man who Mitt Romney appointed to help implement the Massachusetts health care plan, has stepped down. Though Kingsdale hasn’t announced where he’s moving to, a spokesman for his agency tells the Boston Globe that he will be “exploring opportunities to help with national health care reform.”
What does this all have to do with 2012?
Well, Kingsdale was appointed by the Romney administration in 2006, and tasked with running the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, which operates the state exchange on which Massachusetts citizens can use government subsidies to purchase government-designed insurance plans. This is the same basic infrastructure that Democrats just created at the national level, and Obama himself has repeatedly tied the two plans together in the past few weeks.
And Allah’s point? Obama and his handlers will snatch this guy up, if he hasn’t already….and then BOOM! Mitt is outta here.
…the talking points for Mitt’s primary opponents sure do seem to be mounting, don’t they? If the administration is pursuing Kingsdale, it would be another clever move by Obama to hurt the GOP by poaching political talent. He vacuumed up Jon Huntsman by offering him a job he couldn’t turn down just as the media was starting to chatter about him being the “great moderate hope” or whatever. Installing Kingsdale, a guy with a Romney pedigree, in a position of visibility vis-a-vis O-Care would create a perpetual thorn in Mitt’s side ahead of the primary.
I would be shocked if this doesn’t happen. Obama didn’t get to where he is now by being stupid, and snatching a guy up from a GOP frontrunner to prove that Mitt is ObamaLite is just plain smart.
And the sooner this “frontrunner” is outta the field the better.
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