Upside Down, Dr. Seuss World of Reince Priebus, or…can he really get away with that?

Talk about having it both ways, and not a peep from his loyal Republican voters. Reince spun this odd conflicting GOP position Tuesday morning:

ABC News: "And the Supreme Court has stated that Obamacare is a tax, and so since they have ruled that it's a tax, it is a tax."

Reince added…

"Our position is the same as Mitt Romney's position. It's a tax."  

But as we all know, the day before Reince made it so clear he and Mitt both considered the freeloader penalty a tax:

Eric Fehrnstrom, chief strategist for Mitt Romney,  said Monday that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee did not consider the mandate to be a "tax" (but a penalty).

See? And yet, conservative voters never even noticed. Wow.

Important: One thing I heard over and over from from conservative talk hosts, was that Justice Roberts legislated from the bench when he changed what the Obama administration insisted was not a tax, to a tax. Yet:

While Congress was debating the bill in 2010, Obama insisted that the individual mandate was not a tax … while the president's solicitor general was defending the constitutionality of the case before the Supreme Court in March 2012, he expressly argued that it was a tax, in hopes that if the court found the mandate to be unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause, the taxing power could be used as a lifeline.

Do Republicans ever have to tell the truth about anything?