I 100 percent blame the Republicans who wanted Romney to begin with. Anyone with a brain knew he was the worst candidate ever chosen to be the Republican candidate. The problem I have with us conservatives is that we are forced to settle for the lowest denominator each and every time. When have we ever had the candidate of choice? We keep voting for the crap they put in front of us. I still believe that if Bloomburg somehow got the Republican nominee in 2016, that most on Free Republic would be talking about how great the guy is. I just think that we have not taken a stance on principles in so long that we forgot what it is like to do so.
You know, as well as I, that he was ‘elected’ by corruption of the election process, not by real Conservative popular vote... it wasn’t an accident. (Open Primaries, for example).