Bob Franken

This column received this week was written before Mitt Romney announced he would not run for president.

Do politicians flat-out lie, or do they merely backtrack? The answer is both, but in Mitt Romney’s case, the backtracking is so frequent, so practiced, that the guy rivals Michael Jackson with his moonwalking.

A little traipse down memory lane to the 2012 campaign reveals how frantically Romney reversed himself whenever it was expedient. Pro-choice in an earlier political incarnation? No problem in 2012, when he needed to be pro-life. A leading GOP moderate back in the day? Suddenly he was d...