Perhaps. If you only listen to him when he's "severely conservative," trying to win the nomination. Before then and after the nomination, he's all for pathways and extra help working his lawn.
Everything is relative. Romney started off well when he enlisted Kris Kobach to be his adviser on immigration. He said all the right things during the primaries. Then came the famous meeting on Long Island with Murdoch and other high rollers, and the rest is history.