Let’s cut through all the chit.
Romney is a gun-grabbing, baby-killing, big government statist, liberal fellow-traveler, and so is anyone who supports him and urges others to support him.
There it is, like it or not.
I’m thinking you for one are NOT in denial. :-)
Anyone who will vote for someone like that is not a conservative, and any self-identifying conservative who is willing to overlook those things is a damned fool.