My Thursday column attempts to document Romney's latest round of extreme policy reversals:
This column is a very serious warning to anyone who's considering a vote for Mitt Romney next month: You'll be voting for an empty suit. An unknown quantity. A grin and a haircut. At this point in the election, you simply don't know where he stands on the issues, or who he is as a leader, or what he believes as a set of core values.
Why? Because it changes by the minute.
In the last 48 hours alone, Mitt Romney has entirely reversed his own positions on abortion, on the individual mandate and on hiring more teachers. And these are just the items I've been able to gather from my usual round of sources. In the past week alone, Mitt Romney has contradicted or outright reversed his positions on pre-existing conditions, on tax cuts and on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
These aren't minor shifts in thinking -- nor are they minor issues. We're talking about top shelf sacred cows in our political discourse. For the sake of keeping this column to a reasonable length, I'll cover his reversals on abortion, the mandate and teachers. If you'd like to read more about the other reversals, I've provided appropriate links above. [continued]