If Romney is the nominee and wins, I predict that within one year the conservatives who backed him will be more disappointed that those who had backed Nixon in 1968 or GWB in 2000.
I'll take the disappointment gladly if he WINS. Better him than Hillary or Obama.
Funny, I made the same comparison recently, but with CLINTON and GW Bush being the players: “conservatives” who voted for Bush, now after over 6 years, are disillusioned it seems to me in nearly EXACTLY the same way that the near or far Left was with Clinton/ Clinton managed to hang onto his base perversely only by things more style than substance: becoming the Icon for middleaged men with a mid-life crisis, his in-your-face blatant pardons of damn near the whole spectrum of unworthy types, and the knowledge that he would be back in the form of his wife Hillary.
Bush hung onto his base for a few things like his Judge appointments, and his stand on partial birth abortion, and getting John Bolton into the UN. It just isn’t enough for Bush, when his posture now regarding immigration is virtually EVERYTHING a Liberal would do: he’s lost.
The way I see Romney , he has NONE of the serious defects of character and outlook I see in Bush. He IS the candidate.