DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Romney needs to debate himself
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is focusing his campaign on the economy, but as long as he remains the frontrunner, Democrats intend to keep up the debate over health care.
"Before Mitt Romney enters the [GOP primary] debates he needs to have a debate with himself on where he is on any issue, particularly health care," Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said on the CBS' "The Early Show" today.
The state health care reforms Romney implemented as governor of Massachusetts have become his biggest political vulnerability in the Republican primary, given their similarities to the federal plan President Obama put into place. Yesterday, Romney promised a "complete repeal" of the federal reforms, but defended the Massachusetts plan as "a state solution for a state problem."
Wasserman Schultz said those two positions don't square up. "He supported an individual mandate, pushed through a smart plan for his own state that has made sure that people have access to coverage, that was a model for the rest of the country," she said. "He really can't decide where he wants to be, and that's because he sticks his finger in the wind and is wherever he needs to be politically at the time."
Earlier on "The Early Show," Romney charged that the president's agenda, "out of almost every dimension, has made it less likely for entrepreneurs to be able to grow." He proposed actions such as bringing down corporate and employer tax rates as a means of spurring job growth.
