Joe Biden
earlier this afternoon:
There is no daylight between Governor Romney and Republican leaders on the most important issues facing this country. Not even Romney's Etch-A-Sketch can change that.
And Mitt Romney
earlier this morning, denying that he would treat his campaign like an Etch-A-Sketch:
The policies that I described in my book, the policies that I put in place as governor, the policies that I described in the campaign are all the same, and I’m going to keep those policies going forward.
Which is
exactly the same thing he said on Wednesday:
The issues I am running on will be exactly the same. I am running as a conservative Republican. I was a conservative Republican governor. I will be running as a conservative Republican nominee, at that point hopefully, for president. The policies and positions are the same.
So both Joe Biden and Mitt Romney agree, Romney is running as a conservative Republican candidate, now and forever. Of course, everybody knows that despite what he says today, Mitt Romney will try to shift positions as November approaches, because voters don't want the hard-right nonsense he's embraced to win the nomination. And when he does, the image of Romney as a wannabe Mr. Etch-A-Sketch will be there to greet him.