Former Rep. Tom Davis (Va.), a GOP campaign guru, said there’s plenty of opportunity for Romney to explain his work on healthcare reform. Romney should look to “differentiate” his attempt in Massachusetts from what Obama is implementing, Davis said, and explain that while Romney tried a “noble experiment” as governor, he would never replicate it nationally.“I think he’s managed it pretty well,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a longtime Romney backer who will support the former governor again in 2012. “There’s a difference between the federal government usurping power than for [a state] to do what is its right to do.”
Neither of which I would consider to be a conservative, of course.