ABO
Romney [or whoever] will thrash 0zero - as long as we vote.
This November during the general election, enough conservative voters will, either, blank the ‘12 POTUS race, vote third party, or write-in somebody else for ‘12 POTUS, unless a brokered GOP Convention leads to a decent pro-conservative choice for ‘12 POTUS/VP (I, still, doubt that a brokered convention will, actually, happen.). The U.S. is finished as a capitalistic and conservative country, for the long-term, but I, really, want to be proven wrong about this, as do a highly finite number of other non-leftists.
That is the key and the reason the Dims are working overtime to see Romney as the nominee.
But Romney has not yet shown that he will take the fight TO Obama - dithering around, Romney seems to be perfectly willing to LET Obama define him, much like McCain.
And once being defined, Romney seems set to concede point after point, until there is no perceptible difference between himself and Obama.
It is hard to get enthusiastic about such a game plan. Romney may put up a good defense when attacked directly, but defense does not move the ball down the field, and has NEVER scored a thing.
Obama is vulnerable on SO many fronts, he is a target-rich environment. Almost anything he claims for his credit can be demolished with a few well-directed rounds.
Energy policy. Foreign policy. Cooking the numbers on unemployment and real GDP growth. Tax policy (taxes WILL rise, in the absence of any legislation to extend still further the Bush tax cuts). Presenting a plausible Federal budget, or even permitting the current budget passed by the House to be voted on in the Senate (how about a simple phone call to Harry Reid on this one?)
Never even have to raise the issue of Obamacare. Not a topic for debate or discussion anytime during the campaign.
This is because of stupid, easily influenced women. They bought into the whole republican war on women BS. He’s winning them big in the swing states. Hard to belive people don’t yet see him for the fraud and liar that he is.