Democratic Deadpool

<![CDATA[After being in this business for thirty years, if I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times by Democrats. If X happens, or this or that person gets elected, people will die. You'd think this tactic would be reserved for the most extreme of issues or candidates, but with today's Democratic Party, it's not the final arrow in their quiver, it's often times the first one they reach for in order to convince you to not do something. Remember when Mitt Romney ran for president in 2012? This was a couple years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare. Romney, who certainly would never be mistaken with Donald Trump on many policy points, had campaigned that he would repeal the measure before it got a chance to take root. And for that, we were reliably told by Democrats, people would die. Jonathan Alter, then of Politico and a contributor to NBC News, went there.]]>