The Democratic National Committee has a new web video out, slamming Mitt Romney for his having floated an idea for privatizing veterans’ benefits via health care vouchers.
The video demonstrates that despite the various explosions in popularity (and subsequent implosions) for right-wing candidates like Rick Perry, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich, the Dems are not taking their eyes off the candidate that most pundits still expect to be the Republican nominee.
The Dem video replays video of Romney outlining the idea: “each soldier gets X thousand dollars attributed to them and then they can choose whether they want to go on the government system or the private system and then it follows them, like what happens with schools in Florida where they have a voucher that goes with them.”
The video then asks in on-screen text, “But what if a voucher doesn’t cover the care for our wounded warriors?” This is then followed by more video of Romney, seeming to think aloud, “Who knows?”
The video then spotlights a story from Tuesday, when a veteran who was silently protesting Romney’s idea was escorted out of a campaign event.
