[Huebolt]

Gotta have someone electable. Romney is possibly that. Imagine Romney - Palin... or better: Palin - Romney. Either way she’d keep him straight.

[FrankR]

"Gotta have someone electable. Romney is possibly that. Imagine Romney - Palin... or better: Palin - Romney. Either way she’d keep him straight."

I could write a childrens' book called, "Romney the RINO", in which I could show children what they should NOT grow up to be. If John McCain and obama had a child together, he would be named "Mit Romney".

And Sarah as his VP? Well I would hope she has more class than that, and more pride not to accept "2nd place" behind Romney when she is light years ahead of him both politically and personally.

I don't think the "Mit train" is going very far, at least I hope not...but then, I never thought obama could get elected either.

[Repeat Offender]

Why does everyone insist on these wishy washy republicans? Myth Romney, Huckabee, Juan Me-Cain, Bob Dull.

None of these people are electable. NONE. They have no principles and no spine.

I'm tired of voting for the lesser of two evils. If this is the absolute BEST America has to offer politicaly, than it deserves everything it gets.

It is absolutely disgusting seeing these people sweet talk their way into a conservatives bedroom. We wake up the next morning; they're gone. They kiss and tell and cheat on us with the media and every liberal cause known to man. I know what cheap whore feels like.

If we allow the RNC to cherry pick the biggest RINOs the most un-principled BASTARDS to ever disgrace the American political scene then they deserve to lose.

So, go ahead start crying that 0bama will win. Good. To hell with it. I've been moving in a position to Go Galt. Y'all deal wih it. Remember these people are reresentatives of US.... if you want a spineless idiot to represent you, what does that say about you?

[MizSterious]

After what we KNOW Romney did to MA, why would anyone in their right mind want him to be President? Obama-Lite we don’t need.

[screaminsunshine]

If they nominate Romney I am gone. How about McCain/Dole. That would be right up RINO alley and the GOP could keep its coveted minority. 1/3 of the Loot and no resposibility.

[Phlyer]

Gotta have someone electable. Romney is possibly that.

We've fallen for that 'must be electable' mistake too many times. Dole was 'electable.' McCain was 'electable.'

And Reagan was not.

Despite the way he actually performed while in office, George W. Bush was considered very conservative - particularly during his first campaign. And that was the cultural perception even during his second campaign (just try telling a liberal that "W" was not conservative and see how big a laugh you get.)

The only Republicans that can get elected - except the the coat-tail anomaly of Bush I - are considered to be conservative. If the people don't want a conservative, they are going to vote for the Dims anyway.

That doesn't mean they actually have to be conservative (e.g. Bush II). Only that they are considered conservative by the voters.

And Romney is not considered conservative at all. The Republicans have lost their way so badly that they have inverted the 'conventional wisdom.' They nominate a 'moderate' who then has to spend his entire compaign establishing his 'conservative' credentials. And then they lose.

This has come about because a preponderance of the early caucuses and primaries are in the more liberal areas of the country. If the delegate train started in more conservative states, the moderates would not get nominated. A truly 'electable' candidate - as opposed to a nominatible candidate - must be conservative enough that the voters do not perceive him (or her) as Democrat-lite.

A candidate who ran on the anchors of an honest implementation of the Constitution and fiscal responsibility would capture the current mood of the country. However, establishment Republicans have already lost their credibility on that. It will take a true outsider - probably a governor, and certainly someone with a track record of fiscal responsibility.

Though Romney was a governor, he fails the rest of that test completely.