Matt Ortega

DeVore says, ''I've never had a desire to be anything.'' Here's to a self-fulfilling prophecy, Chuck.

Chuck DeVore sat down for an interview with the San Diego News Room, which was published late Monday.

In one particular question, DeVore was asked about healthcare reform and basically argued that government regulation is to blame for the soaring premiums, record profits, and the 50 percent of bankruptcies that are brought on by healthcare expenses.

SDNR: What’s your take on the healthcare debate?

CD: It’s a dangerous thing (universal healthcare). You’re talking about having increased government participation in one-seventh of the economy. When, what is largely wrong with healthcare today is the government to begin with. It’s the free market that brings us high quality fuel to our local gas stations; it’s the free market that brings fresh fruits and vegetables to the grocery stores. You would think something as important as healthcare would cause Americans to say ‘gee the free market works so well in providing us high quality and reasonable costs for everything else, wouldn’t we want more of that for healthcare, not less? But it’s precisely the direction they want to take it. It’s more government intervention in a system, that while it has its blemishes, it’s still the best in the world.  If you look at the things that need to be fixed, clearly interstate competition for insurance policies is one big thing. We need to go further in the direction of health savings accounts and get rid of the asinine policy of flex accounts. I mean what brilliant individual thought of that, where you can set aside $4,000 and if you don’t use it by the end of the year you lose it. That makes people overuse healthcare services, because you can’t roll it over--that’s stupid. What you want to do is encourage people to stay healthy by accumulating tax free dollars year-to-year that can only be used for healthcare. That’s why we need to have more things like health savings accounts and not less.

These are his actual words that prove Chuck DeVore doesn't know what he's talking about.

Gas prices, which DeVore pegged as "high quality and reasonable costs" thanks to the "free market," repeatedly reached record highs last year and fluctuate in reaction to the activities of a highly volatile region. Just this morning, the Los Angeles Times reported that while California gas prices dipped below $3 a gallon, oil crude soared to the highest level in a year at $79.61 and there are fears that gas prices are on the way back up. The high quality, DeVore speaks of? Brought to you by the free market of the California government.

And those fresh fruits and vegetables carried on free market flatbed trucks running on "reasonably" priced gas? They don't poison then kill you because of government regulation. For a better idea of what the DeVore free market vision looks like, read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

Early in the interview, DeVore was asked if he had always planned to run for Senate, to which he replied:

I’ve never had a desire to be anything.

Inspirational stuff, really. Young conservatives must be riveted with this soaring rhetoric.

The best line of the entire interview, however, was the next sentence:

Offices are tools from which you do things with.

Also, too.