Contradiction in terms?

Then Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announcing a Save America's Treasures historic-preservation grant for the Old North Church, in Boston, 2003

“Being a conservative Republican in Massachusetts is a bit like being a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention.’’

— Mitt Romney (born 1947), the Bay State’s Republican governor in 2003-2007. By current MAGA standards, he’s a liberal. A fiscal conservative and a businessman, he’s also a father of Massachusetts’s near-universal health-insurance system, a model for the Affordable Care Act.