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Um, it doesn't matter what the FF's personal feelings were, the document they left behind, as interpreted by the current conservative SC, found that the individual mandate did not violate it.
Further, the individual mandate was an idea championed by the conservative Heritage Foundation for over 2 decades.
This is how far baggers have strayed from their conservative roots.
the individual mandate never even made it past the negotiation stage back then. So it wasn't like there was wide political support for it among conservatives even then. But you are correct, there has been a clear shift in republican politics since then, which is why it's always bizarre when people cite past policy positions, even though they are based on being totally misinformed about what popular positions were actually at that point in time