No, flip flopping is when you change your mind to whatever the polls say at the current time, or whatever the audience wants to hear. Hillary comes to mind
So when Mitt was running for elected office in liberal Massachusetts he was anti-Reagan, anti-life, anti-conservative. But when he was running for the nomination of the Republican Party he saw the light and became pro-life, pro-Reagan and pro-conservative.
Boy, Mitt sure had lucky timing to see the light right before he ran for the nomination.