"The Real Romney": Veteran Reporter Michael Kranish on Mitt Romney's Embrace of GOP's Rightward Turn

(Multimedia) Unlike his father, Kranish writes, Mitt Romney is not "the moderate voice seeking to rein in the extreme forces in the GOP; he has become, as he called himself earlier this year, a 'severely conservative' man looking to win the complete trust of the dominant right of his party." Although George Romney had been concerned by the impact of the right-wing John Birch Society on the Republican Party, his son is indirectly its beneficiary. Full Story »