It's just pandering. He's not really trying to hide it...

Anyway, i had to yell at someone on Facebook, again, for trying to blame the increase in gas prices during Obama's term on Obama, despite the fact that oil production (US and Worldwide) is up and the economy was still in free-fall in January 2009.

He could lower the fuel tax.

Funding and matience of road is growing ever more increasingly covered by the fuel tax, with less and less contributed by local taxes and spending.

Truth is.. such spending should MOSTLY be local to discourage "road's to nowhere".  

No point getting the government to buy you a big new fancy road if you've got to pay for it's upkeep.

Yeah, or he could eliminate the deficit, that's sort out those pesky "fuel prices" (fact is, fuel isn't actually any more expensive than its long term average, it's just the dollar is so weak, now).

To be fair, Romney was pro-abortion when he was governor of Massachusetts. He's simply reverting back to his (old) ideologies, it would seem.

Of course, that flies in the face of most Republicans I know that are voting for him because "He's really a conservative!".

Well, on the plus side, that would end up making the GOP have a Libertarian platform, and forget any form of social conservatism.  This way, it is shrink government down, and if you are Libertarian be happy, as the GOP develops a platform of "legalize everything":

Romney is taking the approach that all moderates take to get elected (for both parties) ... Play to the base to get through the primaries and, after the base becomes invested in the election (and more interested in winning than any particular issues), move back to the center before the election.

The only thing I find surprising about this is that it didn't start months ago