....Bill Kristol, Republican/Neoconservative Pundit, founder of the
Weekly Standard, and regular commentator on Fox News:


But the...proposal is also a serious political threat to the Republican
Party...It will revive the reputation of the party that spends and
regulates, the Democrats, as the generous protector of middle-class
interests. And it will at the same time strike a punishing blow against
Republican claims to defend the middle class by restraining government.


And that is the basis for GOP opposition to health care insurance
reform, as succinctly stated as possible.