A younger Mitt Romney would have totally opposed such a procedure. He may now call himself a “severely conservative” governor, but there wasn’t much about his term as Gov that was conservative, severely or otherwise. Now he’ll have to support this procedure, at least until the primaries are over.

The notion that Obama has flip flopped like Romney is demonstrably false. There’s a huge difference between failing to keep all your campaign promises (see Obama and every president in US history) and doing what Romney’s done—change your position in an about face on most of the major social and economic issues of the day.

Abortion. Health care. Gay rights. Immigration. Gun control. Tax cuts. Climate change. Gays in military. Support for the Reagan/Bush legacy. Obama holds essentially the same position on these issues that he did 8 years ago. Mitt, OTOH, holds pretty much the opposite position on each issue. Which is one of the reasons he can’t seem to break through with Republicans who call themselves “very conservative” and/or TP members. They recognize that he’s packaging himself like New Coke, as if Old Coke never existed.

There is no MBF between Romney and Obama. Nor between Romney and the other GOP candidates who have in their careers been far more consistent, at least in their support of or opposition to the major social/economic issues that shaped the political landscape of our time.