I warmed up to Romney watching him in the debates, and hoped he was now showing his genuine self.
The trouble with the perfect hair and the perfect suits and the Ken doll looks is that it throws up a feeling of artificiality that a lot of people couldn’t get beyond, especially with the political opportunism on the abortion issue. If he’d had a military service record, I think all would have been forgiven vis a vis the bias of some about his LDS religion, but he didn’t.
So, I think the problem with Romney is that not just a chunk of conservatives/evangelicals will never warm to him, but that middle of the roaders that McCain is counting on won’t either.
Sounds like it’s going to be Pawlenty, however, about whom I know precious little, which is always a risky thing to do in nominating someone to national ticket — picking a relative unknown. Never know what the press will dig up.