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Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up? Ctd

John Dickerson, like most of us, has something on his mind. And it's about Mitt Romney. Should he win in November, which Romney will show up on the first day in the Oval Office? Will it be Moderate Mitt from Massachusetts, or the heartless conservative? Willard has multiple ideological personality disorder, so it's kind of hard to tell:


Since President Obama has been in office we’ve seen how “trust me” works in practice. Voters can make their own individual assessment of whether President Obama has kept their trust or not. They don’t have to look for secret windows into his soul. But with Mitt Romney it’s not so easy. It would be nice if we could force the challenger to offer a budget as a qualification for running for president (perhaps the Commission on Presidential Debates could get on that?), but until we do, the essential question is how will Mitt Romney behave when he’s staring at the hard choices in the Oval Office. Will he be a moderate of the center-right as he appeared to be on the debate stage or will he be the ruthless realist of that video? It depends on which Willard Mitt Romney shows up.