Obama diagnoses his rival with 'Romnesia'

President Obama coined a term today for what he called Mitt Romney's habit of changing political positions: "Romnesia."

"Now, I'm not a medical doctor, but I do want to go over some of the symptoms with you," Obama told supporters in Virginia. "Because I want to make sure nobody else catches it."

In a speech devoted mainly to women's issues, Obama said Romney has exhibited a subset of amnesia by forgetting past views against equal pay, access to contraceptives in health care plans, and abortion rights.

"If you say you're for equal pay for equal work but you refuse to say whether you'd sign a bill that protects it, you might have Romnesia," Obama said at one point.

Romney has also forgotten his positions on tax cuts and opposition to the coal industry, added Obama, who also cracked a joke promoting his health care plan.

"If you come down with a case of Romnesia ... here's the good news -- Obamacare covers pre-existing conditions!" Obama said at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. "We can fix you up! We can make you well, Virginia!"

Virginia could be the decisive state in the Obama-Romney race, and polls show a close contest.

Romney aides dismissed Obama's new term as a bad joke.

"America doesn't need a comedy routine, it needs a serious plan to fix the economy," tweeted Romney spokesman Danny Diaz.

As for women's issues, Virginia legislator and Romney backer Barbara Comstock said: "Women haven't forgotten how we've suffered over the last four years in the Obama economy with higher taxes, higher unemployment and record levels of poverty. President Obama has failed to put forward a second-term agenda -- and when you don't have a plan to run on, you stoop to scare tactics."