Really. Politics makes strange bedfellows. Does this move in 1976 by Ronald Reagan negate all the conservative principles he espoused and worked for before and after? I think not. Romney didn't say he'd choose Lincoln Chafee or Chuck Hagel as VP, all he did was say he'd support our party's presumptive nominee. Sheesh. This impossible standard which everyone is being held to is really getting tiresome. Had it been in place in 1980, we would have rejected one of the best Presidents our country has ever known.
Reagan had promised, if nominated, to name Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania as his running mate, in a bid to attract liberals and centrists in the party. This move backfired, however, as many conservatives (such as Senator Helms) were infuriated by Reagan's choice of the "liberal" Schweiker, while few moderate delegates switched to Reagan. Helms promptly began a movement to draft conservative Senator James L. Buckley of New York as the presidential nominee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Republican_National_Convention
A FENCE on the southern border is what I demand and nobody will deliver it.