Yep. It has started.
And for good reason: to win, candidates must move towards the center. The questions are whether the Republican base lets him, whether talk show hosts let him or give him a pass, and whether the issue really will matter if he changes positions and the Demos call him on it.
But Romney’s (politically necessary) inching towards the center and away from GOP primary and Tea Party voters has now begun.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.