Via AMERICAblog Elections: The Right's Stuff:
In an interview on Meet the Press on Sunday, Gingrich backed the individual mandate.They've got an excellent Jon Stewart clip over at The Right's Field, not to be missed.
In the same interview Sunday, on NBC's "Meet the Press," Mr. Gingrich backed a requirement that all Americans buy health insurance, complicating a Republican line of attack on President Barack Obama's health law.However, in a video posted to his website, Gingrich said he opposes federal mandates.
The former House speaker's decision to stick with his previous support for an individual mandate comes days after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney defended the health revamp he championed as governor, which includes a mandate.
"I am for the repeal of Obamacare and I am against any effort to impose a federal mandate on anyone because it is fundamentally wrong and I believe unconstitutional," he said in a video posted on his website on Monday and apparently shot this morning outside a Washington, D.C., hotel where Gingrich was addressing an Alzheimer's convention.
