What he is doing, is what all politicians do, and one could say that he is moving back to his original positions.
But I guess this does not make much difference to someone who thinks his religion is a cult.
I think much of the opposition to Romney is exactly that, people are worried about his faith, but won't come out and say it. Instead they have to make up reasons in their mind to oppose him in different ways.
FReeper rbookward posted this on another thread, and I repeat it here because its' quite enlightening.
Richard Mouw, President of Fuller Theological Seminary:
I know that I have learned much in this continuing dialogue, and I am now convinced that we evangelicals have often seriously misrepresented the beliefs and practices of the Mormon community. Indeed, let me state it bluntly to the LDS folks here this evening: we have sinned against you. The God of the Scriptures makes it clear that it is a terrible thing to bear false witness against our neighbors, and we have been guilty of that sort of transgression in things we have said about you. We have told you what you believe without making a sincere effort first of all to ask you what you believe.