Yep Isaac will be along shortly to correct us and explain that the young RP learned from his dad's mistakes and is doing the right thing.

Doesn't matter how conservative a candidate is if he can't win in the general, the argument goes, and this is a move toward "marketability" to prove, presumably, that he isn't all principled & closed-minded like his daddy.

Whatever.

Criticize the elder RP all you like, but he never caved on matters he deemed important. His son clearly learned nothing about why his supporters backed him or why his opponents hated him so much.