Politifact rates this FALSE: PolitiFact | Barack Obama Says Mitt Romney Called the Arizona Immigration Law a ‘Model for the Nation.’
They’re simply flat out wrong. Here’s a transcript in which Romney repeatedly cites Arizona’s SB1070 as a model for the nation.
This is why you can’t trust Politifact any more than any other mainstream media source. They’re sloppy and apparently lazy, and they get a lot of things wrong.