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RE :”And Yet, Romney was always the candidate least likely to win the General Election given his atrocious Progressive Liberal record, his inability to articulate a conservative message(Because he wasn't one), his liberal social issue policy positions, and his refusal to attack head on Obama”

Given all the others with their problems I dont see where they had any better chance than he did to beat Obama.

Certainly Romney had lots of weaknesses to begin with (what did he run on again?) and then the primary made it even more difficult for him to beat Obama, Obama didnt have one of those.

Romney's theme was like 'I ran a business. I will cut taxes, drill some oil, cut some unspecified spending, some change to medicare effective 2022 and you all will get great jobs'

No, that's just his PR, what you left out, and what were his stated policy positions, is what sunk his boat all along.

1. Implementation of a Socialistic Healthcare program called RomneyCare across all 50 states, as if that made it a states right issue and somehow made the Socialism OK (Repeal and Replace).
2. Support for Gays in the Military
3. Support for Gays in the Boy Scouts
4. Support for Gay Adoption
5. Support for Abortion, almost wholesale Abortion. August 2012 - something to the effect of "I support Abortion in the case of Rape Incest, Life and HEALTH of the Mother. That has always been my position".
6. Overt lying about the other candidates in the primaries rising to the level of smears. (See the lies about Newt Gringrich)

Let's not whitewash what amounted to the worst possible GOP POTUS candidate in our lifetime.

A sock-puppet could have beaten Obama, because of his extreme leftism, if they only had even just a slight majority of conservative principles and could communicate them.

Romney did not and his approach was to run away from the base and to the mythical moderate voter that was going to save his election chances.

Romney's theme was like 'I ran a business. I will cut taxes, drill some oil, cut some unspecified spending, some change to medicare effective 2022 and you all will get great jobs'

That was only part of the story where Romney is/was concerned; that's just his PR. What you left out, and what were his stated policy positions, is what sunk his boat all along.

1. Implementation of a Socialistic Healthcare program called RomneyCare across all 50 states, as if that made it a states right issue and somehow made the Socialism OK (Repeal and Replace).
2. Support for Gays in the Military
3. Support for Gays in the Boy Scouts
4. Support for Gay Adoption
5. Support for Abortion, almost wholesale Abortion. August 2012 - something to the effect of "I support Abortion in the case of Rape Incest, Life and HEALTH of the Mother. That has always been my position".
6. Overt lying about the other candidates in the primaries rising to the level of smears. (See the lies about Newt Gringrich)

Let's not whitewash what amounted to the worst possible GOP POTUS candidate in our lifetime.

A sock-puppet could have beaten Obama, because of his extreme leftism, if they only had even just a slight majority of conservative principles and could communicate them.

Romney did not take or communicate conservative positions and his campaign approach was to run away from the base and to the mythical moderate voter that was going to save his election chances. Thereby disengaging, if not infuriating, his base and giving them no reason to get excited or get involved.

In other words, this was his election to lose, and he chose to lose it.