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In an article I read about Romney I think they did a very good job of summing him up. He is a businessman who is has used his ability to assimilate into a particular role to attain great success. When Bain was buying and gutting companies he was able to present himself as a person who was interested in that company and their products. He showed himself to be knowledgeable and passionate about the company and what they do. This helped him win over the management so he could buy and gut the company. Many very successful businessmen in many different businesses regularly do the exact same thing.
Now Romney wants to be president so he is playing the role of someone who wants to be president. I think, if elected, he will actually govern more like the guy who was governor and less like a hardcore right winger. That is likely what is in his heart and his flip flops are him slipping out of character. It might be easy to fake interest in a company for a few months while you do the courting and buying, it is different to hold character for a couple of years as you run for president.
In the end it won't really matter. I was reading today about how the new congress will be more divided than ever before because most of the moderates have been voted out and both sides have voted in people who are much more extreme one way or the other so the odds of them finding a middle ground on things will be very low.
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