everyone flipflops in politics. that is not the reason why his negatives are comparable to hillary
If Mitt gets the republican nomination the media goon squad --which is blindly liberal and a democrat sycophancy-- will plaster the media channels with so much of the strange things about Mormonism that the American people will wonder how a man running for president could believe such nonsense and how thr republicans could put such a candidate up for the election! The conservative turnout will be suppressed significantly enough to hand the general to the DNC canidate and a whole lot more democrats in House and Senate.
Frankly, I don't think there is anything Romney can do to dispell the repulsion Christian conservatives will have upon hearing the fundamental heresies in Mormonism. He has one tremendous thing going for him, his family, family life, and the fine sons he and Ann have turned out. America is slowly dying because the family as the fundamental instituional glue is horrifically eroded and supplanted by liberalism.