Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up? Ctd

Dave Weigel invites us to meet the new-and-improved liberal Mitt Romney:

“There will be no tax cut that adds to the deficit,” said Romney, as he discussed plans to cut taxes and add to the deficit. “I want to underline that: no tax cut that adds to the deficit.” On health care, the issue that dragged out the primaries more than any other, Romney took full ownership of the Massachusetts mandate. “I like the fact that in my state, we had Republicans and Democrats come together and work together,” he explained. And he promised to restore $716 billion of funding to Medicare—four times. Did President Obama expect to meet this version of Mitt Romney? The stiff who’d told a February CPAC that he’d been a “severely conservative” governor was replaced by the list-making guy who actually won in Massachusetts. Up to now, every time Romney has walked off the reservation—when an aide has failed to say that President Romney would burn Obamacare page by page—conservatives have erupted. And then Romney humiliated Obama in a debate. All is forgiven.