Mitt The Moderate? Depends Who You Ask
TAMPA (CBS) - It's been a long hard slog for Mitt Romney, plagued by a question that, for some, still remains unanswered: if he gains power, how will he use it?
The Obama campaign has their spin: he'll lead a dangerous resurgence of far-right-wing rule.
To Romney's longtime friends, like former Massachusetts Governor William Weld, the image of Romney as a conservative ideologue is absurd.
"I'm certain he would govern as a pragmatist because that's the world of business. You don't advance in the world of business by taking insane risks or saying 'I don't care if the data goes the other way; I've got a hunch and I'm going this way.' That again, is not Mitt Romney," Weld said.
But that remark verges on political incorrectness for a campaign that has struggled to attract wary conservatives without repelling moderate swing voters.
Romney's son Tagg stopped short of placing the nominee above ideology when WBZ-TV Political Editor Jon Keller asked whether a president Romney would govern as a centrist.
"Know he is going to do everything he can to fix the economy and he's going to work with both parties to get things through," Tagg Romney responded. "He is a conservative and he's going to govern as a conservative, but he realizes that he needs to reach out across the
