About a year ago, when Paul Ryan’s original budget plan was unveiled, Mitt Romney was not yet an announced presidential candidate, and went to great lengths to avoid endorsing the far-right agenda. Romney dodged questions for months, until reporters eventually gave up asking.
That changed in December, when Romney found his presidential campaign in a bit of trouble, and discovered he had to work harder to prove his conservative bona fides. On Dec. 8, the Romney campaign boasted, “Mitt Romney supports what Paul Ryan did. He endorsed what Paul Ryan did.” The campaign went even further soon after, attacking Newt Gingrich for failing to fully embrace the Ryan plan.
Eventually, after avoiding the subject for nearly a year, the former governor broke down and said out loud, “We’re going to have to make changes like the ones Paul Ryan proposed.”
That was in December. What, pray tell, does Romney think about Ryan’s new-and-not-improved budget plan? Here’s what the former governor said a campaign event yesterday:









