Saletan: Mitt Romney sucks up to his next audience by triangulating against his last one.

Badmouth Habit is another of Will Saletan's insightful and well-researched blog posts, pointing out a pattern in the sequence of Mitt Romney's speeches:

Romney, contrary to his boast, does say different things to different audiences. Among politicians, that’s nothing unusual. What’s unusual is that Romney, for further advantage, told each audience what he wouldn’t tell the last one. First he talked pro-choice Republicans into giving him millions of dollars. Then he told the gay-rights guy he was pro-life. Then he told the NAACP he was against gay marriage. Then he told the Montanans he had pissed off the NAACP. Romney didn’t just hide things from each audience. He dissed them.

Will Saletan also wrote the definitive articles on Mitt Romney's flip flops on on abortion and taxes. (Dean Obeidallah, who CNN describes as a political comedian, has a different take on flip flops: it's exactly what a CEO should do.)

Update #1 - Will Saletan's latest article chronicles Romney's dog whistles to the "Obama isn't a real American" crowd.

Update #2 - After another abortion flip flop, Will Saletan points out Romney's "weasel words."