Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The Republican Party has been speed
dating, racing through presidential prospects like a Hollywood
starlet working her way through leading men. The fickleness
suggests a party that doesn’t know whether its Tea Party heart
or its establishment head should prevail in 2012.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was next in line,
which is usually the right place to be in a Republican
nomination contest. He checks some important boxes -- successful
businessman, former governor -- and his conversion to
conservative positions occurred far enough in the past that the
phrase “flip-flop” no longer shows up in every story about him.
He’s against health-care reform, though still dogged by the fact
that he once was for it.
