The ship to have somebody else in top presidential ticket has sailed. I partly blame conservatives with their inability to rally behind one candidate against Romney for that. Being whinny that Romney campaign was ruthless in attacking other primary candidates didn't help. If other candidates couldn't win under Romney's attacks, what pray could they have against 0bama & Co.?
Romney got the nomination by playing an ugly, treacherous game of hardball in which a great many of us Republicans never even had a voice because by the time the primary came to our state, it was Romney vs. Paul.
Romney didn't win in any true sense of the world. He finegled, manipulated, outspent-by-tenfold, and strategized -- I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of Republicans think he stinks. His getting the nomination is one more case of a liberal minority seizing power of representation over a conservative majority. It's happened across the U.S. through the MSM spinning for the Democrat party, and now it's happening with the Republican party.
Romney is bad news for everybody, though currently appealing to the faint-hearted.