He’s the GHW Bush of the next election. If Palin prevails he’s likely to be her VP candidate.
Then what do we do reelect Obama or hold our noses and vote for lesser evil?
Romney will play the same role as Bush for Reagan. Softening and mollifying the RINOs and mushy middle (aka independents (those too daffy to choose a side)), filling out Palin’s missing credentials and helping her with the pro-business vote/lobby.
Romney is like government -- not part of the solution, but part of the problem.
He's not pro-business any more than Soros or Geffen or Gates or Buffet or Richard Branson or any other wealthy businessman. Hell, it's his businessman's principles that make him so disgustingly dangerous -- taxpayers are employees.
No principled businessman could perceive Romney as on his side or the side of free markets and personal responsibility. An unprincipled or shallow-thinking one, yes, but a business person based in conservative principle, not for a second.
The GOP and Republicans need to start choosing their candidates not on appeal to groups, but to INDIVIDUAL AMERICANS. Screw the "pro business vote lobby" and the Gay lobby and the Hispanic lobby and the Women's Vote and the Asian and all the rest of it. Stop appealing to groups and start appealing to Americans who just want the government the hell off their necks and back in the servants' quarters.
No way would Romney accept a VP spot under Palin. But it’s a moot point, because there’s no way Palin is going to get the Presidential nomination in 2012. If she really gets her act together and educates herself in a hurry, she *might* have a shot at the VP spot again, and if Romney got the Presidential nomination and offered her the VP spot she’d grab it without hesitation. It would be really funny to watch the reaction of the Romney-is-evil-incarnate/Saint-Sarah-is-our-Savior crowd . . .