Romney aide who coined Etch-A-Sketch comparison now says ObamaCare penalty is not a tax - Akron, OH - The Suburbanite

Romney aide who coined Etch-A-Sketch comparison now says ObamaCare penalty is not a tax

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By Pat Cunningham

Remember Eric Fehrnstrom (above)?

He’s the Romney campaign adviser who SAID this past March that the Mittster is likely to abandon some of his right-wing positions once he wins the Republican presidential nomination. He likened it to using an Etch-A-Sketch toy.

And now, the loose-lipped Fehrnstrom is stirring up another political firestorm with THIS:

Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney, admitted Monday that he actually agrees with the Obama administration on something: the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act is a “penalty” and not a “tax.”

Since the Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law but ruled ...

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