The two things are hardly comparable. In Romney’s case we had a lifelong, very explicit and very emphatic, pledged and promised pro-choice guy suddenly change 180 degrees.
In Fred Thompson’s case he backed a single piece of legislation he now says he wouldn’t have done. Like I say, hardly comparable.
If Fred Thompson had been campaigning for 20 years to repeal the First Amendment, then one day decided to run for President as a free speech advocate, you’ld have someone you could compare to Mitt Romney.
That’s an excellent point well made.