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*””Romney aligning himself with mainstream Rockerfeller/Country Club Republicans, or cozying up with the ruling Democrat power brokers while he was in business at Bain Capital in Boston are consistent with a pragmatist who is working with the existing power structures, or positioning himself to get elected in Massachusetts. (such as registering as an independent, and voting for the local candidate from Mass, Paul Tsongas in the Democrat primary, but not in the general election). Any responsible executive has an obligation to manage a favorable relationship with the political powerbrokers - it is common to contribute to both sides like Trump does.””

That isn’t what he did, or was doing.

Having left the GOP, and being anti-Reagan, Romney became a supporter of liberal, anti-conservative republicans through the 1980s, until 1989, after that, all of Romney’s donations went to democrats, Romney even did democrat fundraising and voted democrat, and then in October of 1993, after Reagan was gone, and Bush defeated for reelection, Romney reregistered republican.

Romney donated to Democrats: Not “Boston” democrats, although he did do fund raising for Planned Parenthood.

Democrat Congressman Dick Swett of New Hamshire, the next election Swett was defeated by republican Bob Smith for a Senate seat.

Congressman John J. La Falce (D New York) and Douglas Delano Anderson, an unsuccessful Democratic primary candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Utah Republican Jake Garn, who retired that year.

The two Democratic House members who Romney funded were solidly liberal. For 1992, Rep. Swett had a 32 rating (out of 100) from the American Conservative Union and an 85 from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. That year, LaFalce scored a 12 ACU rating and a Swett-like 85 from the ADA.

Mitt Romney held a fund raiser for democrat Dave Anderson in an effort to take the Utah Senate seat of Jake Garn (R-UT), who was leaving, luckily republican Bob Bennet, defeated Mitt’s candidate for the Utah Senate seat.

Meanwhile, Romney supported the Massachusetts GOP with a $2,000 check on April 13, 1988, and another $1,000 on July 17, 1989. However, he did not write another check to Republicans until he donated another $1,000 to the Massachusetts GOP on October 27, 1993. So, between July 1989 and October 1993, Romney exclusively financed these three Democrats.

Romney voted for Paul Tsongas in 1992, when Tsongas crushed the opposition in the secret ballot, Massachusetts primary, with 67%, while Clinton got 11%, and HW Bush got 66% in the republican primary.
We don’t know how Mitt Romney voted in the general election that year.

“As for being a party builder, his leadership as titular head of the Massachusetts Republican Party has been disastrous, with the state GOP suffering massive losses during his tenure,”

***Mitt Romney— “My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helms”