NO interest in driving anyone out of the party, and mitbots and monied interested will not help him win the nomination. Mitt has too much baggage with MassaCare that he foisted on the poor subject of Mass. I just think practical has to be the mantra for 2012. Paul Ryan is going to lay the groundwork in House budget committee, the person who wants to win nomination is going to have to embrace most of Ryan’s roadmap for fiscal sanity. That will weed out a lot of the pretenders pretty quickly.
Mitt has a lot of qualities I admire, but can’t see him getting very far, even though MSM will probably try to boost him due to his moderate credentials.
There are very few “moderates” anywhere ~ and just how do you achieve moderate credentials on abortion ~ that’s kind of an either/or situation. Same with the death penalty. Or crime in the streets. Or excessive spending on non-defense related items.