ROMNEY DOGGED BY A TALE OF TWO HEALTH PLANS. Given the similarities between Massachusetts’ RomneyCare and ObamaCare, Mitt’s got some serious explaining to do. Despite the straw polls, I don’t think Romney is a viable Republican candidate for the presidency in 2012 unless he can carefully, precisely, and effectively demonstrate a significant difference between the two.

The individual mandate, in particular, is a killer. Romney’s argument that “one’s a state mandate (and you can move); the other’s federal” won’t wash with the American public.