All Romney's vague rhetoric has done is provided ammunition to both sides. If he's really not interested in pandering then he can say clearly what he means
At the Washington Post, Jennifer Rubin bizarrely praises Romney for not even promising to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. She is correct that Republican presidential candidates who got the big job promised it and then broke their promise, but is there something praiseworthy in Romney refusing to even promise something as basic as that?