Newt 2012

"Why Romney Can't Beat Obama" +
  1:20 web video from March 12, 2012.

Tim Pawlenty:  "President Obama said he designed Obamacare after Romneycare and basically made it Obamaneycare."

Female Announcer:  What happened after Romneycare became law?

It became the model for Obamacare.

Individual mandate.

Penalties on businesses.

Big bureaucratic insurance exchanges.

Government-approved insurance policies.

Government subsidies.

More government bureaucracy.

Tim Pawlenty:  "President Obama said he designed Obamacare after Romneycare and basically made it Obamaneycare."

Narrator:  Want more proof?

Obama’s staff met with Romney’s health care advisors to draft Obamacare.

The ‘architect’ of Romneycare was paid $380,000 to help Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat controlled Congress draft Obamacare legislation.

That’s why Obama said Romney’s plan was the blueprint for his plan.

Barack Obama:  “This is sort of similar to the bill that Mitt Romney, the Republican Governor and now Presidential candidate, passed in Massachusetts.”

Tim Pawlenty:  "President Obama said he designed Obamacare after Romneycare and basically made it Obamaneycare."

Female Announcer:  Two men, same plan.  Republicans ran against Obamacare in 2010 and won. But how can we run against Obamacare in 2012, if Republicans have to defend Romneycare?  And that’s why Mitt Romney can’t beat Obama.

Notes: Makes use—three times—of a June 12, 2011 FOX News quote from then candidate former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who is now a prominent Romney supporter.