As everyone knows by now, Mitt Romney’s health care reform in Massachusetts includes a government mandate forcing residents to purchase health insurance. His position today, as he freely admits or even brags about, is that he believes that the mandate was and still is right for MA but would be unconstitutional if implemented at the federal level. The scary part of his position is that, while he believes a federal mandate, a la Obamacare, is unconstitutional, he, in principle, has no problems with such a mandate. It is not offensive to his basic ideology or his sense of morality. So here it is, the leading Republican presidential candidate, claiming that he is as conservative as as anyone else in the race, has no moral qualms with a government being so large and intrusive that it can force, under penalty of law, everyone under its authority to purchase health insurance. I hope that this is not what the Republican party has come to.