So you're telling me that the Republicans would want to elect a president who supported an unconstitutional mandate?
So you are saying it's ok to violate the constitution provided that it's Massachusetts? The people of MA may like the policy, but that doesn't make it right. The constitution is paramount, and that means that individual liberty takes priority.
If the people themselves sell themselves into slavery, that does not make slavery right - no one can deprive themselves of their own rights, natural rights are intrinsic, not extrinsic.
Uh, what if you work in healthcare? Obamacare and the health care mandate has resulted in many layoffs.
I want a candidate who isn't 1-1 on successfully forcing people to buy healthcare.