Unlike many of us, Mitt Romney is obviously buying all those polls claiming he's 'neck and neck' with Obama so he believes he has to show a leftist tilt and supposedly woo the vaunted independent/undecided voters to his side with this waffle on Obamacare provisions that the entitlement people seem to like. That the Republican base (us) will look askance at this latest Romney switcheroo doesn't concern Mitt because he must realize that he has us locked in out of our very real fear of an Obama second term. All we can do is (a) let Romney know his waffling is unwelcome and, (b) that we will work hard to elect a conservative congress that will be an obstacle to any Romney administration plans to 'go left' once in office.
However, if, as some believe, this is simply an attempt by the media to draw conservatives away from Romney it will fail as most of us are 'ABO' voters (like me) that may not consider Romney a conservative in any sense of the word but next to Obama, he almost looks Reaganesque. Almost being the key word.
Let's see Romney's reaction to this story.
Romney reminds me a lot of Bob Dole.