Mitt Romney's 1994 campaign pledge: Repeal Bill Clinton's fiscal policy

In 1994, Mitt Romney campaigned on rolling back Bill Clinton's economic policies Steve Kornacki reminds us that despite his weird embrace of Bill Clinton in 2012, back in 1994, Mitt Romney campaigned for U.S. Senate on a pledge to roll back Bill Clinton's economic policies:

Running against Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, he embraced the '93 budget as an issue, playing up the tax increases and claiming that it would do nothing to curb deficits because Democrats had refused to make real cuts in spending. When Clinton came to the state in late October to campaign with Kennedy, Romney held a rally of his own with Bill Weld, then the state's Republican governor.

Kornacki dug up this passage from the Boston Globe at the time:

As Weld led the cheers of 'Go, Mitt, Go,' Romney labeled Kennedy and Clinton 'the guys who put together the biggest tax increase in the history of the nation' and said they were in Massachusetts 'explaining why they need more of your money.'

'It's fine for Bill and Ted to have their excellent adventure,' Romney said. 'But I'd rather be here with Bill Weld showing the voters we care about taxes, about real jobs being created, about being tough on crime and being tough on welfare.'

But now Romney is trying to claim that he's the true heir of Bill Clinton ... even though his policies represent nothing more than Bush's policies on steroids. There's no chance that Romney will actually convince anybody with his weird gambit: The only question is whether it will help people understand just how delusional he can be.