(NEWSER) – In a scathing editorial today, the Wall Street Journal declares that this week will be seen as “a turning point” if Mitt Romney is not elected president in the fall. Why? Because on Monday, a close adviser said that Romney, at odds with the GOP, does not consider ObamaCare’s individual mandate penalty a tax. He thus “absolve[d] President Obama of raising taxes on the middle class,” the WSJ declares, turning “the only possible silver lining” of the Supreme Court decision “into a second political defeat.” Yes, Romney referred to the penalty as a tax yesterday, but with zero elaboration on his change, “the campaign looks confused in addition to being politically dumb.”

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