People have talked for months, perhaps years, about Mitt Romney’s inconsistencies, about how they feel uncertain as to what position Romney would hold on a particular issue. The story is getting old and tired, but allow me to summarize: for Romneycare, then against the very similar Obamacare; pro-choice, then anti-abortion; pro-gay marriage, then favoring a constitutional definition of marriage.

There are other criticisms of Romney out there: too cautious, too plastic, too “moderate.”

But somehow I remain about as confident in Mitt Romney’s predictability as in Newt Gingrich’s, which is to say not as confident as I’d like but more than confident enough to support him in the general election.

Please read the rest of my article for the American Spectator at:
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/12/09/mitt-versus-newt