My ideal candidate would be Gen. David Petraeus. I only said I suspect that Romney would be the standard bearer in 2012. I base that upon the credible primary race he ran his first time around. BTW, I wasn't a supporter of Romney in 2008 though I do not find him "truly despicable" as you apparently do.
A man that reveals such a compulsion to lie is despicable, claiming that he marched with MLK, owns guns, lifetime hunter, that Reagan was "adamantly" pro-choice, "I longed to serve in Vietnam", and you know that the list continues, this kind of lying goes far beyond political spin, these are the lies of a man that can't control himself, it destroys any claim to morality that the man can make.