Mitt Romney, the true conservative?

It's the process all the Republican candidates have to go through to be considered a shot for getting the party nomination: who is the "real conservative"? Even normally sensible people like Rudy Giuliani and John McCain get swept up into the madness, courting the evangelical vote. But Mitt Romney? The former pro-gay rights, pro-choice, anti-gun governor of the bluest of all blue states? Some conservatives are biting. National Review endorsed him. And now, so has Tom "Immigration is un-American" Tancredo. This after The Boston Globe twice uncovered the fact that Romney's Belmont home was being landscaped by illegal immigrants. Ron Paul's popularity doesn't make any sense to me, and neither does Romney's. As Jon Stewart said regarding Romney's campaign, "A patrician flip-flopper from Massachusetts . . . good luck with that."