Is he a conservative or is he a moderate? Gov. John Kasich can’t seem to make up his mind, although he clearly wants primary voters to think he’s the former.

The central strategy behind Kasich’s presidential campaign, launched Tuesday, seems to be to defend all the moderate or liberal things he’s done as governor of Ohio and then to promise to approach those same issues as a staunch conservative if elected president. Here are three issues where the Ohio Republican is trying to have it both ways: