It's Your Heritage Jim!

TPM: As Jim DeMint sees it, Mitt Romney precluded Republicans from truly campaigning against the Affordable Care Act in last year's election.

“Because of Romney and Romneycare, we did not litigate the Obamacare issue,” the Heritage Foundation president told Bloomberg Businessweek's Joshua Green in a story published Thursday.

Presumably because it was Romney's idea...  What the TPM piece doesn't say, and Jim DeMint for sure doesn't say, is that before Romney, the idea actually came out of... wait for it... wait for it... yes, the Heritage Foundation.  Of which Jim DeMint is now president.  And if all that's not enough, DeMint himself is on record supporting the idea. So uh, yeah.. whatever.

Here's the fine point of it: if these people are against something just because the president is for it, even if it was their idea in the first place, they're by definition not motivated by what's best for the country.