[squidly]

I would tend to give Romney the benefit of the doubt as to whether his conversions to conservative was sincere given the constituency which he governed.

One could make the same argument for Huckabee, given that he governed a state in which the legislature was 135 Democrats and 15 Republicans (or very close to that number). Not that I especially care about Huckabee, I'm just saying.

[Vigilanteman]

The average Democrat in Arkansas is several degrees to the right of the average Republican in Massachusetts.

Even then, as unbalanced as the legislature is in Arkansas (75-25 in the house, 27-8 in the senate), it is even more unbalanced in Massachusetts (138-19 in the house, 35-5 in the senate).