“It was very clear tonight we were pointing out that Mitt Romney started ObamaCare,” Santorum’s top media advisor, John Brabender told reporters, as Ohio results rolled in. “He started it with Romneycare.”
“More importantly we saw this week that Mitt Romney personally lobbied for Romneycare to become Obamacare,” an apparent reference to a 2009 op-ed in which Romney offered his plan as a model for Obama. “The unfortunate thing is he got his wish.”
The escalating talk of health care reflects an attempt to refocus a campaign that has struggled for a clear message. On the stump lately, Santorum has sought to build a simple positive message around a return to manufacturing jobs and a negative one around the health care plan universally labeled “ObamaCare” on the GOP campaign trail. Indeed, Santorum has said more than once in the past week that he wouldn’t be running for President if it hadn’t been for ObamaCare.
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