It would be crass for Rubio to turn around less than two years later and call Romney a RINO
I get that part.
I think he could have worded it different.
Romney is not a conservative. There is some question whether he is actually a republican.
I have heard Romney make excuses for his liberal policies.
How as governor he didn’t have a lot of choice but to give in.
I have never heard him strongly denounce many of them?