How is that going to work out when their front runner, Mitt Romney, has to run on the platform that he plans on repealing a health insurance bill that is awfully similar to the one he has in his home state?
This is the point that Obama was trying to get across when he was schooling GOP representatives at that Q&A session. Republican politicians get trapped by their own FUD: if you encourage your constituents' beliefs that Obama's policies are pure evil, that leaves you no room to reach any sort of compromise or to pass similar policies in the future.
I don't think health care will be a huge issue in the 2012 election, actually. Or at least it won't be the way it's been. Republican candidates mostly won't run on a promise to repeal (they'd get hammered for wanting to get rid of the popular parts) and by then other debates will have more recently dominated the public's mind.
Remember all the crazy stuff from the campaign? A lot of it kind of faded (Rev. Wright for example), not because the nutjobs came back to reality, but because they moved on to newer, fresher imaginary outrages. That's how it works.
This time in two years we'll be talking about the signs people are bringing to anti-amnesty rallies or some shit like that.