Reminds me of Romney recently claiming he never publicly proposed that Romneycare and it's Individual Mandate should be a model for Federal healthcare.

Except he did. In a 2009 Op-Ed.

http://www.therightscoop.com/2009-romney-op-ed-obama-should-use-my-individual-mandate-in-obamacare/

Thus continues the Romney Modus operandi: Everything is about the short term. There is no long game.