Quote Originally Posted by Dark Sage View Post
Say what you will, Roy, but Romney's insistance that it's a tax is not convincing anyone who wasn't opposed to the bill from the start. In fact, support for Obamacare has grown since the ruling.

And Romney's insistance that it's a tax while the fee imposed by his plan was a penalty is hurting him too. The Wall Street Journal today called him "dumb". (And that's a direct quote.)
Romney is not insisting it is a tax, he is saying and I quote: "Well, the Supreme Court has the final word. And their final word is that Obamacare is a tax. So it's a tax. They decided it was constitutional. So it is a tax and it's constitutional. That's the final word. That's what it is."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_16...date-position/

He is just noting that it is the Supreme Court's final word, to say it is not a tax goes against the very Supreme Court ruling that upheld it.