You are one of the worst Romneybots, do you think that we don’t remember you?
No one is after Romney in order to promote a particular candidate, that is what the Romneybots do, go after everyone in a scorched earth manner.
Conservatives are merely trying to eliminate one filthy worm that doesn’t belong in presidential politics and we are trying to protect the rest of the GOP field from the amoral monster. If conservatives do not eliminate Romney and his nest of vipers then he will take down the GOP again and he will destroy any conservative that gets in the way of his anti-conservative instincts.
If your memory and perceptions were a little sharper, you would remember and distinguish between “promoting” and “defending against excessive criticism.”