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All of these statements and positions occured before the Courts ruled in Massachusetts for Gay Marriage. At that time, Mitt wrongly believed that statue would be good enough. Once the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled against all of human history, Mitt flipped and since has done just about everything he could to get rid of Gay Marriage. (Some people think he could have rejected Gay Marriage through executive powers, but at the time it was hazy Constitutionally, as the ruling is)

I don't know if thats a flip-flop, its more of a flip. But I understand your point. He has definetly flip-flopped on Abortion. I don't know if he has flipped on Guns yet, though I doubt it. And he has always been hazy on Gay Rights. Though he is strongly Conservative on Fiscal issues. Not my first choice, but I'd still vote for him under "Favorite Son" conditions if Newt doesn't run.

MassGOP: "I don't know if he has flipped on Guns yet, though I doubt it."

Actually, he has flipped on his rhetoric and the NRA, but not on his support for gun control itself. (You gotta have a very detailed scorecard to keep up with this guy's machinations.)

He previously endorsed the Brady Bill and the federal Assault Weapons Ban.

Told the Globe last month that he still supports the federal AWB, but "won't say" if he still supports Brady. So no flip on his actual endorsement of gun control.

However, Mitt's rhetoric has flipped. In the past, he was publicly critical of the NRA, said his views didn't coincide with the NRA.

But last Sunday, he told ABC News (live on camera) that he ever-so-conveniently plunked down his money to become a "life member" of NRA last August...why, just six months ago.

Globe reported that he wrote in an online blog last month: "I've got a gun of my own."

Then reported that when pressed by reporters, he admitted that he does not actually own a firearm.

Yet another in a pattern of statements that are just one shade shy of the truth.