That's the latest incarnation of the shape-shifter in the closing arguments of his campaign. And he points to his Obamacare policy in Massachusetts as proof. Which it was. But it was essentially pushing at an open door: the Democratic legislature overwhelmingly supported the bill. Still, Romney deserves some credit for the conservative measures, like a universal mandate and healthcare exchanges in the bill, that, of course, he now vows to repeal as socialism at a national level. Inconsistent? Hey: it's Romney. To paraphrase a Mormon apostle from 1978:
It doesn’t make a particle of difference what anybody ever said about the 800 vetoes before the third day of October of this year.
But the underlying theology remains the same. When Romney is talking to Republicans, he proudly mentions his highly partisan vetoes of Democratic legislation. He vetoed 800 bills from a Democratic legislature in his four years as governor – and spent his final year out of state boasting about them to right-wing audiences. In his last year alone, he racked up 250 vetoes, which reveals the rapid deterioration of his relationship (always distant and frosty) with legislators. Almost all were over-ridden – many unanimously. Now he cites his bipartisanship as a reason to vote for him. Why not?
By the way, his disapproval rating after four years of his triumph as a bipartisan governor was around 60 percent. For some reason, he didn't run for re-election.
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