Tell me again how Romney and McCain differ?
Romney is a RINO.
If we are going to try to save this country, we need a hardcore conservative who does not try to get along with liberals and leftists, who are the enemy.
It’s going to be just about impossible to fix the economic mess that the communists/socialists have caused. The American people do not have the backbone to endure the “austerity” we are going to face for at least 10 years to get back to true prosperity. It will take a series of very committed constitutionalists and free-market supporters.
Frankly, I don’t see it happening. But if it is going to happen, we need eight years of a strong, in-your-face conservative that can pull us through this.
A RINO will not do. And the left will pin the economic failure on that RINO, the GOP, and the “conservatives” that voted for the RINO.
Romney never was a U.S. Senator.
Though he ran for the Mass seat against Ted Kennedy:
"....Romney had been thinking about entering politics for a while. He decided to take on longtime incumbent Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, who was more vulnerable than usual in 1994 – in part because of the unpopularity of the Democratic Congress as a whole and also because this was Kennedy's first election since the William Kennedy Smith trial in Florida, in which Kennedy had taken some public relations hits regarding his character. Romney changed his affiliation from Independent to Republican in October 1993 and formally announced his candidacy in February 1994. He stepped down from his position at Bain Capital during the run. Romney came from behind to win the Massachusetts Republican Party's nomination for U.S. Senate after buying substantial television time to get out his message, gaining overwhelming support in the state party convention, and then defeating businessman John Lakian in the September 1994 primary with over 80 percent of the vote. In the general election, Kennedy faced the first serious re-election challenger of his career in the young, telegenic, and very well-funded Romney.
Romney ran as a fresh face, as a successful entrepreneur who stated he had created ten thousand jobs, and as a Washington outsider with a strong family image and moderate stands on social issues. Romney stated: "Ultimately, this is a campaign about change." After two decades out of public view, his father George re-emerged during the campaign as well. Romney's campaign was effective in portraying Kennedy as soft on crime, but had trouble establishing its own positions in a consistent manner.
By mid-September 1994, polls showed the race to be approximately even. Kennedy responded with a series of attack ads, which focused both on Romney's seemingly shifting political views on issues such as abortion and on the treatment of workers at a paper products plant owned by Romney's Bain Capital. Kennedy and Romney held a widely watched late October debate without a clear winner, but by then Kennedy had pulled ahead in polls and stayed ahead afterward. Romney spent over $7 million of his own money, with Kennedy spending more than $10 million from his campaign fund, mostly in the last weeks of the campaign (this was the second-most expensive race of the 1994 election cycle, after the Dianne Feinstein–Michael Huffington Senate race in California).
In the November general election, despite a disastrous showing for Democrats overall, Kennedy won the election with 58 percent of the vote to Romney's 41 percent, the smallest margin in Kennedy's eight re-election campaigns for the Senate. Source
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ROMNEY can get elected ONLY with massive influxes of money and against a weak opponent -- he is not a natural born leader nor does he possess a winning personality.