Too Late Mitt

This first appeared as a Facebook Status Update but I wanted to put it here too.

It is simply too late for Mitt Romney to try to move toward the center. Everybody understands that in a primary a candidate will position him or herself further from the center than they will be in the General Election and we all take account of this, however the Candidate needs to begin their move toward the center around the time of their Party's convention. Mitt Romney continued to hold to his hard Right positions well after the convention and only took a hard move toward center in the first Presidential Debate. This is simply too late to be taken seriously. It was a smart strategy if we let him get away with it, because it put President Obama in the position of having no idea where Mitt Romney stood going into the debate. Obama took Mitt Romney at his word on all of his positions and sought to engage with that man on those positions, Mitt Romney simply stood there and said, "No thats not what I believe", even though it was exactly what he had been saying he believed for the past 2 years. I know I have been saying this a lot but Mitt Romney only seems to have won the first debate if you do not consider the extent to which he was lying and radically changing his established positions. Mitt Romney's positions are those he has professed for the last 2 years or at least those he held at the end of the week following the end of his convention, this goes for President Obama as well, any position shifts which come after this point should be acknowledged as a change in postion and accompanied by an explanation of why the position has changed, otherwise the candidate is asking people to vote for them blind as to what their actual actionable position is once they are elected and that is simply no way to run a democracy.