Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Friday defended his conservative credentials on Day Two of the Conservative Political Action conference in a speech aimed at assuring his party’s right flank that he is not the wavering GOP moderate his opponents portray him to be.
Despite a speech that earned him several standing ovations, some were not convinced by Romney’s words.
“I’m not sure I can trust him,” Don Ewing, of Meredith, New Hampshire, told The Washington Examiner after the speech. Ewing said Romney’s refusal to denounce the Massachusetts health insurance mandate he helped create as governor is one of the main reasons he is backing candidate Rick Santorum.
