Not. Gonna. Happen.
That's what people said about Romney at about this time in 2011.
Ponder now the deja vu in 2016 of 2012, because there's a pretty good chance it's headed our way. When we're looking at it in 2016, anyone who expresses surprise is ... irritating at best.
Prepare now to be looking at a "choice" between Romney and the Democrat nightmare, because that is very probably what it is going to be. I know how and why I will vote, and it will be again for a different party. The Republican party is the diet decaf version of the Democrat party. That is what makes it "conservative." And I say, to hell with that. I know in my bones that there are a whole lot of Americans -- most, in fact -- who essentially think the same way I do about it.
It isn't the candidate, it's the agenda. Republicans and Democrats have an agenda to grow government. My vote will go elsewhere.