Mitt Romney fully embraces Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan

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Mitt Romney fully embraces Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan

By Greg Sargent

One of the key stories of the day — perhaps the one that will have the greatest long term political impact — has to be that Mitt Romney has now fully embraced Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan.

After previously hedging on the Ryan plan, Romney is now fully declaring his support for it, as a way to wound the surging Newt Gingrich among conservative voters. Newt, you’ll recall, famously referred to the Ryan plan as “right wing social engineering,” and Romney, in a post on his Web site, has revived this Newt quote, and is suggesting he’d sign it into law as president, in order to portray himself as the only true conservative in the race.

“With friends like Newt, who needs the left?” the Romney Web site now blares.

The reason this matters: It will give Dems a weapon in the general election against Romney. “In order to make this attack, Mitt Romney has now given himself ownership of the Ryan plan,” Jed Lewison writes. “Let me say that again: Mitt Romney is now one hundred percent committed to Paul Ryan’s proposal to end Medicare and replace it with vouchers.”

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Let's see: Politifact accuses Democrats of lying about Ryan's plan, Romney signs on, and via Daily Kos: Paul Ryan pushing Politifact's claim that Paul Ryan isn't trying to end Medicare by lying

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1. And TIME magazine wonders aloud why people don't like Mitt

:eyes:

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2. A lot

of people think Mitt is moderate. Then there are those who like to shout: There is not one ounce of difference between Romney and Obama!!!