Romney Previews His Response to the Supreme Court's Health Care Ruling SALEM, Va. - Mitt Romney's campaign is eagerly awaiting the Supreme Court's decision on President Obama's health care law, which is expected on Thursday morning. But on Tuesday, at a machinery company here, Mr. Romney offered a preview of the possible responses he has been readying for when the ruling finally comes. "If Obamacare is not deemed constitutional, then the first three-and-a-half years of this president's term will have been wasted on something that has not helped the American people," Mr. Romney said. If it is deemed to stand, then I'll tell you one thing: We're going to have to have a president, and I'm that one, that's going to get rid of Obamacare. We're going to stop it on Day 1. One of Mr. Romney's most reliable applause lines has been his promise to repeal what he calls "Obamacare," and his comments Tuesday underscored the fact that the Romney team plans to use health care as a campaign issue regardless of the court's ruling. Mr. Romney also remarked on the court's decision Monday, to uphold a key provision of Arizona's controversial 2010 immigration law. Though Mr. Romney and his campaign had studiously avoided the specifics of the ruling on Monday - his traveling press secretary, Rick Gorka, went so far as to hold a seven-minute news conference that did not answer a single question - he began his remarks Tuesday by calling the situation "a muddle." After criticizing Mr. Obama for failing to push through sweeping immigration reform, Mr. Romney said, "The Supreme Court had to step in because states had to step in, states looking to find a way to solve the problems he didn't address, tried to address it in their own ways, and now the Supreme Court's looked at it, and what we're left with is a bit of a muddle." He continued: "But what we know is, the president failed to lead. He failed to do what he said he'd do. And so instead of focusing on immigration, and of course on the big issue, which was the economy and getting the economy going, he instead focused on putting in place his health care reform called Obamacare. Often, as a presidential race heads into the general election battle, the campaigns find themselves engaged in a call and response over the issue of the moment. One side attacks, the other responds, and vice versa. But Tuesday was a departure from that rhythm. Mr. Romney's campaign sought to keep the focus on the news of the day - the upcoming Supreme Court ruling on health care, which is a topic Mr. Obama's team would prefer to avoid. And the Obama campaign, in contrast, returned to Mr. Romney's record as a titan of private equity, releasing a new television ad and line of attacks that portray Mr. Romney as an "outsourcer-in-chief." The new line of attack - on a subject that the Romney campaign would also prefer to avoid - seeks to demonize Mr. Romney's time at Bain Capital, and pulls from a Washington Post article last week that alleges that Mr. Romney's private equity firm invested in a series of firms that relocated jobs overseas to places like India and China.