Sidestepping the issue
"Obamacare" is wrecking things all over the place, and it hasn't even come into full effect yet. Costs are going up, insurance rates are going up, companies are trying to work out how they're going to manage the idiot mandates, and "waivers" are being handed out to over a hundred companies in a belated recognition of reality.
That's an "issue," not something one obscure Republican said out of context (I hadn't even heard of him until your post). The real issue is what a couple of hundred socialists piled onto us in the two years they had almost total power. The Democrats and their pals assume their constituency is easily distracted, and maybe they're right.