It’s very important that we hit Obama hard on this. We have to show that he has lied about whether on not the mandate is a tax. This should be our number 1 talking point going into the general election for 2 reasons.
First, it will cause voters to question Obama’s honesty and his attitude toward tax increases.
Second, it will deflect attention away from Romney’s so-called “inconsistency” on the issue. Already, the leftists are seizing upon Romney’s statement this morning that the mandate is a tax. The leftists are using two arguments against Mitt. They are already calling him a “flip-flopper” for contradicting his campaign’s statement last week that the mandate is not a tax. (Mitt never said this, but one of his spokesmen did). The libs are also saying that if the mandate is a tax, then that means that Mitt raised taxes in Mass by instituting a similar mandate when he was governor.
So we need to hit Obama hard on two themes: that he is a liar, and a tax raising liberal. We need to keep his campaign on the defensive about this. This is the best way to turn undecided voters against him, and get Romney in the White House.
It’s very important that we hit Obama hard on this. We have to show that he has lied about whether on not the mandate is a tax.....
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NO. NO, NO.
we need to hit him with how many times in Obamacare it is written “As the Secretary may determine”. Don’t you get it? We are arguing an irrelevent point here. Obama and the MSM have taken us down a rabbit hole with the “Tax” argument.
“As the Secretary may determine” means that Obama can just make up the rules as he goes along. One of the things that the “secretary may determine” is whether any health plan is “ACCEPTABLE”. Of course, very quickly, all current health plans (the ones that are supposed to keep if you like them) will be deemed “unacceptable” for any specious reason and run out-of-business by Mr. Obomba.
Pure dictatorship in my book. Even my brother-in-law was stuck like a skipping 33 1/3 LP record on the “tax” argument last night. I had to blow up a paper bag and explode it in his face to snap him out of it.