The same could be said for McCain.
Huckabee's personal and family lives appear to be clean, but his history of accepting or soliciting gifts and fat consultancy fees while governor stain his integrity, and his mindless class-warfare rhetoric puts him to the left of Hillary.
The half-hearted Fred Thompson is paying the price for waiting to write his term paper until a half hour before the end-of-semester deadline.
Romney's personal, family, and business lives are spotlessly clean and unimpeachably socially and fiscally conservative, but he has been governor of the most liberal state in the union and has raised the distrust and suspicions of many conservatives who like what they hear but don't like who they're hearing it from.
Meanwhile, money is a HUGE problem going into the general election and any Republican candidate will be hard-pressed to match the Democrat candidate, whoever that might be.
Romney and Giuliani have demonstrated the best ability to raise money and grind out the long, hard days and nights on the campaign trail (Romney is benefited by being able to place some of this burden on his enthusiastic and loyal wife and five sons). But both men have problems with positions (Giuliani) or trust (Romney).
It's a mess, alright.