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TPM: Rush Limbaugh on Romneycare Defense: A 'Goldmine' for Obama
EVAN MCMORRIS-SANTORO
AUGUST 8, 2012
Add Rush Limbaugh to the growing list of conservatives who are completely shocked by Team Romney’s latest move to defend itself by touting Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health care law.
Limbaugh was literally left sputtering as he contemplated the Romney response.
Limbaugh’s criticism came just hours after political observers of all stripes were stopped dead in their tracks by Team Romney’s defense against a Democratic super PAC ad that all but accuses Romney of facilitating a woman’s death after Bain Capital shut down the steel mill her husband worked at, thereby denying the family of health insurance.
In two separate appearances on Fox News, Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul dismissed the ad and said that under Romney’s Massachusetts health care law — which Romney has repeatedly promised to strip away from the country as a whole if he’s elected president — the woman would still have insurance.
Conservatives went nuts, including Limbaugh.
“Andrea Saul’s appearance on Fox was a potential gold mine for Obama supporters,” he said. “They can say, ‘Romneycare was the basis for our health care.’”
more...
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/rush-limbaugh-attacks-mitt-romney-on-health-care-defense.php?ref=fpa
AUGUST 8, 2012
Add Rush Limbaugh to the growing list of conservatives who are completely shocked by Team Romney’s latest move to defend itself by touting Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health care law.
Limbaugh was literally left sputtering as he contemplated the Romney response.
Limbaugh’s criticism came just hours after political observers of all stripes were stopped dead in their tracks by Team Romney’s defense against a Democratic super PAC ad that all but accuses Romney of facilitating a woman’s death after Bain Capital shut down the steel mill her husband worked at, thereby denying the family of health insurance.
In two separate appearances on Fox News, Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul dismissed the ad and said that under Romney’s Massachusetts health care law — which Romney has repeatedly promised to strip away from the country as a whole if he’s elected president — the woman would still have insurance.
Conservatives went nuts, including Limbaugh.
“Andrea Saul’s appearance on Fox was a potential gold mine for Obama supporters,” he said. “They can say, ‘Romneycare was the basis for our health care.’”
more...
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/rush-limbaugh-attacks-mitt-romney-on-health-care-defense.php?ref=fpa