When Romney tried to woo the CPAC crowd, he told them that, in a deep blue state (Maccashucetts), he ”...was a severly conservative Republican governor.” Now I always thought I knew what the words “severe” and “conservative” meant. I can look them up in the dictionary, and it seems to have them meaning about what I thought they meant. And I lived here in Massachusetts when Romney was governor. Romney claims he turned around a huge budget deficit in Massachusetts by slashing spending and cutting taxes, but both claims are lies. The fact is he increased spending 6.5% per year and raised taxes by about ¾ of a billion dollars per year. Now these might actually be conservative things to do, but not in the way the Republican right uses the term “conservative” today. In their already newspeak meaning, you are only conservative if you dismantle existing social structures and take us back to 18th or 19th century spending and tax levels. And doing that just gets you to Conservative. I guess you’d need to retreat all the way to feudalism to qualify as “severely conservative.”

So either his claim is based in some newer newspeak version of the words he used, or this guy is willing to say anything, no matter how ridiculous, to get what he wants. You have only to listen to his campaign speeches when he was running for the Governor’s Office in Massachusetts.to realize he ran as an extremely moderate, progressive Republican. He was pro choice, supported unions, and perfectly willing to let the state’s restrictive gun control laws stand. So what is it? Is there some secret newer newspeak meaning for “severly conservative” or is this guy just willing to say anything, down is up, left is right, bad is good; anything it takes to get himself elected?