I’ve been trying to write a post on Romney’s pandering to the right for days now, and I keep getting so angry that the post becomes incoherent. So I’m trying a new approach, just letting his own words do the work.
Read this, from 2002, in which Romney played the "moderate" card about as strongly as you can imagine. In particular, he called himself "a social moderate," he pledged to protect people’s "freedom to make their own life choices, even if their choice is different from yours," and he said that decisions on the "life" issue were "deeply personal" and should be made "based on [women’s] beliefs, not mine and not the government’s."
Now, of course, Romney has described himself publicly as a "conservative Republican," he has proclaimed his opposition to gay people making a "life choice" that includes either marriage or civil union, and he has declared that his own beliefs on the "life" issue should determine the future of medical research in this Commonwealth.
Moderate? Conservative? Who knows. And really, who cares. The good thing about this whole business is that everyone has now figured out that Romney cares about only one thing: himself.
UPDATE: Our fellow travelers at .08 Acres and Romney is a Fraud have posted similar thoughts, all of which are well worth reading.