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February 24, 2012

Mitt's Audacious Turn-the-Table Strategy

Ron Brownstein, National Journal

By Ronald Brownstein

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's next strategic target is Rick Santorum, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.

MILFORD, Mich. "” The most consistent note in Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign is attacking his rivals for their ideological inconsistency. It's a nervy strategy for a candidate whose own greatest vulnerability is the sense, especially among conservatives, that he has serially reconsidered his positions for political advantage on issues from abortion to gay rights to immigration.

But the former Massachusetts governor is enjoying enormous success in raising doubts about whether the rivals claiming ground to his right are truly committed to conservative principles, with Rick Santorum the latest victim in a one-sided...

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