Wrong. He never ran as a Conservative. He "discovered" Conservatism minutes before the expiration of his term, amazingly, just when he wanted to run for President after doing precisely nothing as Governor... except to cut and run from his office after promising to revitalize the party and abandoning a hapless Lieutenant to hold an office she had neither the $$ nor the support or qualifications to run for. Following in the footsteps of his ultraliberal disciple, Slick Willie Weld, the worst RINO Governor in the history of Massachusetts.
No, you misread what I wrote. To get elected, he ran as a fiscal conservative, and a social liberal...and within a year of winning the election, he was governing as a fiscal and social conservative. That comes from a self-described liberal Democrat who worked in Cellucci’s campaign.
The Democrats felt that they were duped in ‘02, so they voted for a a dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrat in 2006.