romney s problems begin with immigration but they don t end there, do they? no. he also doesn t talk about health care. when you talk about small business, small business purveyors are among them are latinos. when he spoke to the chamber and said he didn t believe in health care and the dream act and he went down the line. small business are the ones that are going to be taking advantage of a lot of the health care that obama was able to champion earlier. but then he also has this whole issue of immigration. he talked about dreamers but he talked about the dreamers as if only they should be eligible only if they re serving in the military. a large portion of folks believe that kids that are valedictorians should get a shot at the american dream. his etch-a-sketch plan is not working. to this point, steve, i d like you to listen to an answer he gave mitt romney on immigration when asked about it in his telemundo interview. listen to this. if you re president of the united states,
advantage of the campaign letting us know in advance, forewarning us, telling us that they are going to not just abandon previously held positions, they are going to pretend that those previously held positions were not previously held. and so with mitt romney in north carolina today, avoiding the gay marriage question, which is amazing, let us cheerfully refuse to go along with the plan for us to all forget all but the current news cycle. let us cheerfully refuse to go along with the plan that you, in the future, will be completely unaware of what happened in the headlines on a day like april 1th, 2012. joining us now is karen tumulty, a national political reporter for the washington post. karen, great to have you here. thanks for being here. hi, rachel. so the etch a sketch plan is not an accusation, it is what the campaign says it is going to do. of the policy positions that mr. romney took in the primary, which do you think the campaign sees as the ones they would most like t
forewarning us, telling us that they are going to not just abandon previously held positions, they are going to pretend that those previously held positions were not previously held. and so with mitt romney in north carolina today, avoiding the gay marriage question, which is amazing, let us cheerfully refuse to go along with the plan for us to all forget all but the current news cycle. let us cheerfully refuse to go along with the plan that you, in the future, will be completely unaware of what happened in the headlines on a day like april 18th, 2012. joining us now is karen tumulty, a national political reporter for the washington post. karen, great to have you here. thanks for being here. hi, rachel. so the etch a sketch plan is not an accusation, it is what the campaign says it is going to do. of the policy positions that mr. romney took in the primary, which do you think the campaign sees as the ones they would most like to change for the general,
members of the whole country. but we have never before had the advantage of the campaign letting us know in advance, forewarning us, telling us that they are going to not just abandon previously held positions, they are going to pretend that those previously held positions were not previously held. and so with mitt romney in north carolina today, avoiding the gay marriage question, which is amazing, let us cheerfully refuse to go along with the plan for us to all forget all but the current news cycle. let us cheerfully refuse to go along with the plan that you, in the future, will be completely unaware of what happened in the headlines on a day like april 1th, 2012. joining us now is karen tumulty, a national political reporter for the washington post. karen, great to have you here. thanks for being here. hi, rachel. so the etch a sketch plan is not an accusation, it is what the campaign says it is going to do. of the policy positions that mr. romney took in the primary, which do
become clear that it is time to open the time capsule, because at some point before the election, there will be an effort to convince you that something that is in today s political news, something that is a real news story, did not happen. a candidate for president will take a totally opposite position to a position that he holds right now, and he will try to convince you that his new position is really what he thought all along. we know that the mitt romney for president campaign is trying to do this, because they have explained that they are planning to do this. it was that etch a sketch moment, right? but the important thing about the etch a sketch moment was the question that the romney campaign spokesman was answering when he explained their etch a sketch plan. is there a concern that the pressure from santorum and gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right that it would hurt him with moderate voters in the election? well, i think he hit a reset button for