I would question how popular Romney is with rank and file Republicans. Other than the fact that he would have been better than Obama I have no more love for him now than I had two years ago. And that wasn’t much.
People stupid enough to vote for Obama (a minority of Americans -- imaginary Americans in the form of ginned, fraudulent, harvested, and illegal votes put him over the top) have the excuse of being STUPID enough to want to be slaves to amoral government tyranny -- they don't even know they're slaves.
But when thinking, intelligent, patriotic, smart Americans vote FOR all the same crap as the price of voting "against" Obama, and that guy they voted FOR gets in office and starts implementing all the amoral slavery they abhor, then THAT IS WORSE.
Romney would have been worse than Obama, and he would be worse than Hillary or any other of the Dem Nightmares on the horizon. He would be worse because we'd have PUT HIM THERE with our eyes wide open.
Voting for Romney was making a deal with the devil, and a deal with the devil is ALWAYS a losing proposition.