The Problem as I see it with Romney is that he will be such a mediocre President that even if he does win he will be so middle of the road as to “not upset the apple cart” that the economy will not bloom and then in 4 years it will assure that the democrats take back power on the whole meme that the “economy didn’t recover”. Not to mention any GOP president is going to be so damned hated no matter how “moderate” they are. Mittens will get so damned gun shy that he will be ineffective and the MSM and the Democrat controlled media will smell blood and keep attacking him even as he retreats and this will paralyze him to what needs to be done to restore the economy and defuse all of Obama’s horrible regulatory actions.
Newt is going to be hated like hell anyways and HE KNOWS THAT, but he also knows that he will have the people who put him there behind even if the Media doesn’t paint it that way every night at 5:00pm. So therefore, Newt (who thrives on antagonism instead of flinching from it) will take the bold measures to recover the economy despite being thrashed every night on the MSM news channels. In Four years the MSM will be flabbergasted like their were on election night in 1984, because the man on the street will notice the economy improvement.
Mitt is a Flincher, Newt is a Clincher
I see the problem as the Democrats are likely to take back Congress or part of it in 2014, because historically the opposition party gains seats in an off-year election. And that's when Mitt will be there passing anything they and "moderate" Republicans want, using the same excuse he did in Massachusetts, that he was "handed" a Democrat legislature. This could start happening sooner of course, if enough Democrats are willing to go along with the "moderates."
Not to mention any GOP president is going to be so damned hated no matter how “moderate” they are.
Ironically the same argument Coulter used against Newt, where it made no sense, is what's going to happen to Romney. He is going to be stuck defending the extremely conservative Mormon religion, but the way he governs, none of that conservatism will ever be made into policy. He will be tied to every aspect of the Mormon religion, which people widely believe to be extremely socially conservative, anti-alcohol and such. Mormonism will be on trial this fall. Mitt will be stuck between a rock and a hard place, either repeatedly denouncing his own religion, or backing it up which would necessarily make him look like an arch-conservative, wiping out any of this supposed advantage he's supposed to have as a "moderate." There are so many ways to kill him on the Mormon issue alone, and that's even before you get into Bain Capital's bankrupting, layoffs and shady business ties, his flip-flopping, his "rich man" gaffes, etc. Romney's the most unelectable of the bunch.