With Romney you have to know context. As I said even, before the primary season in 2012, he was an amnesty lover. He says one thing to one group and something else to another group.
Romney is always a RINO except when he, in his own words, is a severe conservative. Remember his own socialist lib father was born in Mexico. Also, Mitt had illegals working on his yard (he was caught red handed on two separate occasions) when he ran before the ‘08 convention.
Anyone who believes that prevaricator holds a conservative position is either lying or naive. Is he a republican, yes. Is he a liberal/socialist, yes, of the Fabian persuasion. Is he a conservative with conservative beliefs, never. He hates conservatives. He hated them since he and his father hated Reagan years ago. He hasn’t shown any signs of changing. He just pretends to change in order to get the nomination. Don’t be fooled.
Romney tried to be everybody’s huckleberry. And that ended up with him being nobody’s huckleberry because you can’t do two contradictory things simultaneously.