IS MITTENS ROMNEY A SOCIALIST?

In his NYT op-ed, he once again points out that we can't depend on the Free Market Fairy to solve our problems:

I believe the federal government should invest substantially more in basic research — on new energy sources, fuel-economy technology, materials science and the like — that will ultimately benefit the automotive industry, along with many others. I believe Washington should raise energy research spending to $20 billion a year, from the $4 billion that is spent today. The research could be done at universities, at research labs and even through public-private collaboration.