The "R" next to Romney's name isn't magical. It doesn't transform Romney into a conservative.
It simply means that no one in the GOP has the guts to kick Romney's liberal behind out on the street where it belongs.
Romney started at around a 20% acceptance rate, and when it was all over, and he'd spent tens of millions of his own dollars (since not many others supported him), he ended at around 20%. Huckabee (who I did not support) got much higher numbers in a much shorter period of time, with a small fraction of the money.
If you sincerely believe that it is the fault of the "anybody but Mitts", I suggest you not support Romney next time. Since regardless of how much time or how many of his own piggy banks he smashes to fund his campaign, he doesn't seem to be able to rise above 20%, it would seem that Romney himself is preparing to personally hand the next election to the Democrats.
Are you so much more interested in supporting Mitt Romney's next exercise in narcissistic vanity that you're willing to see the next election go down in flames so that Mitt can buy himself another day in the sun?
The easiest way to blow holes in peoples arguments is to assume the person in question did just the opposite of what they are being criticied for. Would they still be criticized?
If Romney didn’t invest in himself, what would people say?
They would say he didn’t even believe in himself, so why should we?
In other words, you are putting words down, but they don’t mean anything.
Romney started at around a 20% acceptance rate, and when it was all over, and he'd spent tens of millions of his own dollars (since not many others supported him), he ended at around 20%. Huckabee (who I did not support) got much higher numbers in a much shorter period of time, with a small fraction of the money.