Mitt In A Nutshell

eyeglassgame in a comment thread at Balloon Juice offered this gem up.

Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts as a pro-choice moderate, because he thought he could get elected by running as a pro-choice moderate.

He ran for president last time as an anti-abortion conservative, because he thought he could get elected by running as an anti-abortion conservative.

He will run this time as an anti-health-care libertarian, because he thinks he can get elected by running as an anti-health-care libertarian.

If he thought he could get elected by running as a pirate, he would run as a pirate.

To that, I would add that he can't run as a pirate.  Obama already has that position well staked out.