TACKING TO THE MIDDLE ROMNEY SHOWS INCONSISTENCIES IN HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN POSITIONS............

After spending more than a year of his 2012 Presidential campaign through the Primaries, Caucuses, and the Republican National Convention, presenting himself in his own words as a, "severely conservative" candidate in seeking and securing the Republican nomination, with the first Presidential Debate last Wednesday, Mitt Romney has began moving to the middle and moderating his positions on the issues, although not without inconsistency.  With just over a month until the General Election Romney starting at Debate number one states he is not advocating a new tax cut for the wealthy, after stating he would rollback the tax rates by 20% across the board which will lower from 35% to 28%, a projected tax savings of $4.8 trillion.  And in speeches and interviews he continues to tout his more conservative opinion and then walk it back when challenged.  In the Debate, he stated his Health Care reform includes Insurance coverage for those with Pre-Existing Conditions, then only minutes later his senior advisor, Eric Fehrnstrom appeared in the Spin Room, clarifying and correcting that assertion.  Today, he is taking heat for having told the Des Moines Register newspaper that there is no legislation out there he would support affecting Abortion, only to have his campaign staff walk it back,  citing his plan to sign an Executive Order cutting off funding for Abortions overseas, as did Presidents Reagan and Bushes.  Thus the dichotomy of            'Moderate Mitt', versus the 'Born Again Conservative Romney', continue to alternate on the 2012 campaign trail, as he strives to unshackle himself from far right positions he ran on to win the nomination by moving toward the middle of the political spectrum in order to win the election; a strategy most Republicans since Richard Nixon have followed.  However, a much more pronounced move by the core of the Republic to the right expounded by the Tea Party, makes Romney's task a more difficult, thus the inconsistent back and forth we see unfolding on Governor Romney's part in the countdown to the General Election, twenty seven days from now............Fr.  Troy