First, his senior advisor says the mandate is a penalty, agreeing with Obama. Now Romney says the mandate is a tax. But does that mean he raised taxes in Massachusetts where there is a state mandate to buy insurance?
Coupled with the confusion over whether Romney was going to highlight Obamacare at all — his staff saying no, while Romney saying yes — one has to wonder who the heck is running that outfit?
Politico:
Directly contradicting his senior adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney told CBS that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is “a tax.”
Earlier this week, Fehrnstrom said in a TV appearance that Romney has the same view as the White House on the individual mandate: that it’s a penalty, rather than a tax. Romney instituted a state-level mandate to buy health insurance as governor of Massachusetts.
But Romney shifted gears in a sit-down with Jan Crawford, declaring that President Barack Obama broke his pledge not to raise taxes by imposing the individual mandate.
Read More at American Thinker. By Rick Moran.
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Romney will walk away with it. Obama Care is a vote killer fo Obummer
Hope you’re right Ray, but the way Romney is running his campaign he’s trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Check out this open letter to Mitt’s campaign at:
http://www.the912project.us/profiles/blogs/open-letter-to-romney-campaign-fire-and-replace-campaign-senior or
http://resistance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/open-letter-to-romney-campaign-fire-and-replace-the-staff?xg_source=activity
Romney is NOT the one to bring us out of the economic crisis. Under his governorship, MA was in the bottom three of the nation for job creation, only above post-Katrina Louisiana and Michigan.
His MA Govt. Mandated Healthcare program has almost bankrupted the state. He will say and act in any way that will get him elected but he is totally inept behind his facade.
With out ONLY two choices, we are lost as a nation. Romney and Obama are the same. Everyone needs to read this book (CAN MITT ROMNEY SERVE TWO MASTERS?) to see just what kind of further MESS we will be under a Romney Presidency. It will in many ways mirror the Obama Presidency.
ROMNEY IS BACKED BY — BIG BANKS — BIG BUSSINESS — BIG CORPORATIONS — WALL STREET — COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS ALIKE — BIG GOVERNMENT DEFENSE CONTRACTORS — ALL RICH -WEALTHY SLAVERS — HE’LL PROMISE EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING TO EVERYBODY TO GET ELECTED. HE WILL KILL THE MIDDLE CLASS — REALLY KILL AND BURDEN THE POOT — MAKE THE RICH MUCH RICHER — HE IS VERY WEALTHY AND DOSEN’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU — HE WILL SAY ANYTHING TO GET ELECTED — CHANGE HIS STORY TO SUIT YOUR NEED TO HEAR WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR HE WILL LIE-CHEAT -STEAL – AND STAB HIS MOTHER IN THE BACK TO GET ELECTED — OBAMA’S BAD AND ROMNEY’S ANOTHER ONE — RON PAUL IF YOU WANT AMERICA BACK.