Surge Earns Romney Room on the Right - Wall Street Journal [ournewsa.blogspot.com]
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By COLLEEN MCCAIN NELSON
Mitt Romney would likely have raised eyebrows, if not protest, had he said during the Republican primaries that "no legislation with regards to abortion" would be part of his agenda, that federal regulation is "essential'' or that young illegal immigrants should be able to keep work permits granted by President Barack Obama.
GOP nominee Mitt Romney speaks Thursday with the Rev. Billy Graham, center, and his son, Franklin, at the Graham's cabin in Montreat, N.C.
But conservative leaders and activists, some of whom worried about the firmness of Mr. Romney's commitment to their causes earlier this year, say they are unconcerned about those and other recent comments that have brought a more centrist cast to the Republican presidential nominee's profile.
With Mr. Romney within striking distance or leading Mr. Obama in opinion polls, many social conservatives, evangelicals and tea-party members say their focus is on winning, not on parsing his statements for signs of moderation. They say they are confident that, if elected, he would govern from the right.
On Thursday, Mr. Obama ratcheted up his argument that his Republican rival is trying to give himself a policy makeover.
"After running for more than year in which he called himself 'severely conservative,' Mitt Romney is trying to convince you that he was severely kidding," Mr. Obama said on a trip to Florida. "Look, what he was selling was not working, because people understood his ideas wouldn't help the middle class. So these days, Mitt Romney's for whatever you're for."
A Romney campaign official said assertions that Mr. Romney had shifted some positions were a result of a monthslong advertising blitz by the Obama campaign that misrepresented the GOP candidate's record. Mr. Romney's positions and profile don't match the distorted version the Democrats created, the official said.
The latest test for social conservatives came this week, as Mr. Romney told the Des Moines Register that "there's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda.''
WSJ's Neil King reports on new swing state polls that show the presidential race tightening significantly in the battleground states of Florida and Virginia, following the Presidential debate last week. Photo: Getty Images.
When the comments drew attention, in part because of Mr. Romney's support for abortion rights early in his political career, he later told reporters: "I'm a pro-life candidate. I'll be a pro-life president."
Many conservatives said they were unruffled. "He has always had contradictions," said Ryan Rhodes, head of the Iowa Tea Party. "That just comes with the candidate. But people just really want to get behind him, even when they know they aren't going to get this ultraconservative.''
Ralph Reed, chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, said Mr. Romney would be a pro-life president, and his selections for the Supreme Court would reflect that view. "He would appoint strict constructionists to the court who would be unlikely to engage in the kind of legislating from the bench that we believe Roe v. Wade is the archetype of," he said.
"I have no concern about his position on life," said Tony Perkins, president of the socially conservative Family Research Council. "We're not going to be in agreement 100% of the time…but we do have a shared set of values."
Al Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union, said candidates have little choice but to strike a different tone during a general election. Conservatives, he said, would hold Mr. Romney accountable to his more conservative policy stances, but now wasn't the time to quibble about details.
"The focus should be winning," Mr. Cardenas said. "Second-guessing four weeks out from an election is providing those with whom we disagree vehemently an opportunity that we should not be giving them."
Mr. Romney hasn't always sparked enthusiasm among evangelicals and other social conservatives. He was a second choice for some, as GOP candidates such as former Sen. Rick Santorum had placed a greater emphasis on social issues during the primaries. When Mr. Romney secured the nomination, the lingering question in many Republican circles was whether those voters would embrace his candidacy.
There has been little sign that they've abandoned the GOP ticket. In a late-September Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey, Mr. Romney was backed by 82% of self-described tea-party supporters, 77% of conservatives and 76% of white evangelical Christians. That compared with 44% support for Mr. Romney among registered voters overall.
Mr. Reed said the contrast between the two candidates' views would ensure that social conservatives will show up on Nov. 6. "There's no danger that a single comment in the course of a year-and-a-half campaign could depress turnout among evangelicals or social conservatives," he said.
During last week's presidential debate, Mr. Romney's spoke about the importance of federal regulation in the course of criticizing the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory measure that Mr. Obama signed into law. He sought to present himself as a bipartisan negotiator and work with Democratic lawmakers during his time as Massachusetts governor. He embraced the health-care plan he had signed as governor.
Mr. Romney has also offered new language on taxation in recent weeks, part of a renewed emphasis on reining in the deficit. He has long proposed to cut all income-tax rates by 20%, though tax breaks and incentives would be scaled back, he has said. Mr. Romney has said a main goal is to reduce taxes for middle-income people.
More recently, he has cautioned that people should not expect his plan to decrease their tax bills as much as they expect.
Cumulatively, these comments marked a difference in Mr. Romney's point of emphasis, if not in policy, at a time when he is trying to win undecided voters. Romney campaign officials have disputed any suggestion of inconsistency or tacking to the center.
In Ohio on Wednesday, Mr. Romney repeated that as president he would move to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood. On Thursday, he made a stop in North Carolina to meet with the Revs. Billy Graham and Franklin Graham.
Obama campaign officials have suggested that Mr. Romney is hiding his true beliefs in an effort to soften his image and gain support. "We know that the real Mitt Romney will say anything to win," Deputy Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said Wednesday about the Republican's abortion comments. "With just 27 days left before the election, he's cynically and dishonestly hiding his real positions."
Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to the Romney campaign, said Mr. Romney had talked all year about his record as a successful governor, who worked with a Democratic legislature in Massachusetts to pass 19 tax cuts, balance the state budget, and raise its credit rating. "You can be a principled conservative and still get bipartisan results. It's not a question of ideology; it's a question of leadership," he said.
â€"Neil King Jr. and Sara Murray contributed to this article.Write to Colleen McCain Nelson at colleen.nelson@wsj.com
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