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In 2008, when I criticized Mitt Romney for being a weathervane in a hurricane on the TV talk shows, I thought he was simply trying to undo some of his issue stands from his Massachusetts days to appeal to a much more right-wing Republican audience in the campaign for president.  

The record then was pretty transparent and used against him by his opponents in Iowa and New Hampshire: changing on abortion, gay rights, gun control, even comments about Ronald Reagan. The trouble for Romney then was that most of this was nicely preserved on videotape. The early 2008 ads against him were pretty tough and pretty clear â€" they went to his character.

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