Mitt Romney, chameleon candidate

I’m watching the first Presidential Debate, and Mitt Romney is infuriating. When he was governor here in Massachusetts, he did at least this much:

• Romneycare
• Retained the assault weapons ban when it expired nationally
• Signed the same-sex marriage law
• Supported a woman’s right to having an abortion
• And a personal favorite, forced Billy Boy Bulger into retirement

Of course Romney had to compromise as governor of Massachusetts! He was a Republican governor in a Democratic state. As President he wouldn’t have to compromise so much. The one, and only, hopeful outcome of a Mitt Romney Presidency is that he would be, as he was here in Massachusetts, willing to do the right thing, rather than adhere to party ideology. But I don’t trust him to do that again. He just said moments ago, “Massachusetts schools are #1 in the nation.” Why is that? It’s because we aren’t just Democrats, but realists. Romney’s problem is that at the national level he’s stuck with the platform of the Republican National Committee, which is determined to take us backwards in every way.