‘For Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the transition from moderate, gay-friendly, abortion-tolerating Massachusetts governor to a certified social conservative isn’t going smoothly. YouTube and Google have exposed Romney’s shifting policy positions and relatively recent history of liberal behavior.
In 1992, he voted for Democrat Paul Tsongas in the presidential primary.
In a 1994 debate, he promised to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy and spoke movingly about why abortion should be safe and legal. Today? He’s hyperpartisan, pro-life, and hostile to gay marriage.
Last year, he worked with Democrats to enact universal health care in Massachusetts. Today, his campaign Web site’s health-care page doesn’t even mention it. (Slate Magazine article).