Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention, Ann Romney hailed her husband's creation of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Program,

“Under Mitt, Massachusetts's schools were the best in the nation. The best. He started the John and Abigail Adams scholarships, which give the top 25 percent of high school graduates a four-year tuition-free scholarship.”

The John and Abigail Adams scholarship program is described on Massachusetts Department of Higher Education's Office of Student Financial Assistance as "a non-need-based state-supported undergraduate tuition waivers to students who are awarded John and Abigail Adams Scholarship by the Department of Education," and is only available to students who are "enrolled full-time in a Massachusetts public college or university."

So, as Governor, Mitt Romney established and funded a program that used taxpayer dollars to send students exclusively to publicly-funded institutions.

Though Mrs. Romney finds this achievement praiseworthy, her husband has pledged to do nothing of the sort as President. Strike that. He has pledged to do the opposite as president. Romney has endorsed his running mate's budget, which includes the largest reduction in Pell grant funding in the history of the program, and he has pledged to fold private lenders back into the federal student loan market.

When he introduced the Adams scholarship, he said: 'Talented and hardworking students, particularly those faced with economic challenges, deserve whatever financial help we can give them. They have earned it with their good grades, and we want to make it easier for them to pursue their college education right here in Massachusetts"

Now, when discussing student aid, he skips over scholarships, and right into loans, saying:

"It is very tempting as a politician to say, ‘ You know what, I will just give you some money. The government is just going to give you some money and pay back your loans for you,’” he said. “I am not going to tell you something that is not the truth, because you know, that is just taking money from your other pocket and giving it to the other pocket. "I am not going to promise all sorts of free stuff that I know you are going to end up paying for,” he continued.

This all goes toward our theory that Mitt Romney is running against himself from 10 minutes ago.