GOP counts on their base to be stupid enough to still believe they have a plan to replace Obamacare

Eight years later, and Republican candidates are STILL pretending like they'll repeal Obamacare, if the base just believes hard enough to elect them again. Never mind that they've had the White House and the Congress for nearly two years and have only managed to demonstrate they can wreck all the things that made the law popular.

They have updated the idea from "repeal and replace" to "repeal and bring back the stuff that you like so much in the law," which is as tricky to run on as it sounds. A lawsuit to declare the whole thing unconstitutional? "Sure, anything that's going to actually get rid of it, yes," says Mike Braun, the Republican running for Senate in Indiana. "And then be ready to come back and talk about what you're ready to do about pre-existing conditions and no limits on coverage. That's where you don't hear much conservative talk."

Pssst, Mike—you don't hear conservatives talking about it because they are utterly incapable of accomplishing it. Remember "repeal and replace"? Remember how disastrous that whole Trumpcare replacement bit was? That's one of the reasons Republicans who are actually in Congress now are not so excited about that lawsuit. Even Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) admits that they are incompetent when it comes to doing anything with health care. "It may be good to have an exit strategy and I'm not sure there's one in place." Yes, indeed it might be a good idea to figure out what to do if 130 million people suddenly lose their health insurance because of their preexisting condition.

The argument that Republican candidates are putting forward is so ridiculous that all the Senate Democrats who are supposed to be "vulnerable" for re-election this year are scoffing. "It's totally bogus," says Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) even Sen. Joe Manchin (WV), the least Democratic of all the Senate Democrats, calls it bullshit. "How come in eight years [Republicans] haven't done diddly squat? How come there's no fallback position?"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/17/1789013/-GOP-counts-on-their-base-to-be-stupid-enough-to-still-believe-they-have-a-plan-to-replace-Obamacare