There are far more moderates, independents and fools voting in the Republican Primaries than conservatives and I have the election results to prove it. Romney is the only candidate not at least giving lip service to the Tea Party. He knows he can't win it so he is concentrating on the people he can win. As for your second comment there are several good conservatives who might possibly run. Not everyone who is not Palin is a Rino despite the prevailing groupthink around here.
The rinos will split their vote.
LLS
You are correct. ROMNEY KNOWS HE CANNOT WIN.
His goal is to destroy the GOP again, and again.
How DARE he allow RomneyBOTS to have thrown Election 2008
and then continue as his Legion of Spoilers.
And then there was 2010.
SHAME ON ROMNEY.
Another shill for Willard heard from.
Romney tried to win evangelicals and values voters the last time, but he failed so miserably that now he’s just “deeming” himself to be a social conservative and asking other social conservatives to move on to other questions.
When you look at his record, what he has said and what he has done, he can’t claim to be a social conservative. That is what cost him in 2008 and it, plus Romneycare, will cost him big time in 2012. He’s so desperate to become president, he doesn’t realize the predicament he’s in yet. But we have to keep reminding him.