Unlike some whom claim Obama care was a 100% Democrat affair, I believe the road of Obamacare is paved by the mistakes of conservatism since 1997 over immigration and willful political neglect in 2006 and 2008. Both factored in leading to rise of democrat majority, the passage of Obamacare and the rule of the Supreme Court.
Part I No more Jose.
June 1997: National Review cover story was Electing a New People by Peterbrimelow & Ed Rubenstein , The story predicted the waning of republican majority because new immigrants vote Democrat, or in other word the Conservative go off the cliff. I feel the adoption of a more restrictive immigration policy disguised as immigration reformed has driven both immigrant and native-born sympathizers to the democrat party setting up for the Democrats to control both houses and the presidency. (More about this later),
Part II Witch-hunt or Hunt the Rino and NeoCon:
If a populist immigration policy was not enough there was the great purge of 2006 lead by low conservative like Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck. Both Beck and Limbaugh demonstrate the corrosive problem of conservative talk radio: both were big on showmanship put offer little in principled intellectual high conservatism. Yes some RINOs had to go but one does not throws out the baby with the bathwater. It was pure insanity to think we should let the democrats win and we can win back with conservative majority on the next cycle, instead in 2008 Conservatism doubled down on a bad bet and went thumbs down on McCain the result was both house under Democrat control, and a leftist in the Whitehouse. Obama made sure of this opportunity by passing Obamacare and two Supreme Court Justices leading to the declared constitutionality of Obamacare. As I think of the conservative government has not learn its lessons in 2012. By not putting up credible individual liberty limited government Reagan conservative, My choice was between Romney and a populist Sanatorium. Romney won.
Perhaps Next time we can lean out lesson, any republican is better than letting a democrat win and the need for Limited government Conservatism and open borders.