In 2005 Mitt Romney decided to run for president, and set about making himself acceptable to the Republican party’s conservative base. He reversed his pro-choice stance, abandoned his support for cap and trade, and discovered a set of almost brutally nationalist foreign policies. The journey from centre-right to right-right nearly killed him, but he made it. Announcing his exit from the 2008 race before the Conservative Political Action Committee, he was introduced to wild applause as a “conservative’s conservative”.
2005年，米特•罗姆尼(Mitt Romney)决定参加总统竞选，并着手塑造形象，让共和党的保守派支持者接受自己。他一改原先赞成堕胎合法化的立场，放弃了对碳排放“限量和交易”(cap and trade)机制的支持，还制定了一套几近粗暴的民族主义外交政策。从中右向极右的转变几乎扼杀了他的政治生命，但罗姆尼挺了过来。在面向美国保守派政治行动委员会(Conservative Political Action Committee)宣布退出2008年共和党候选人提名角逐时，他在掌声雷动的观众面前被介绍为“保守派中的保守派”。