Also, the stakes are too high this year to let another "gentlemen loser" like Romney get the nomination. If we give Obama another four years, we may very well not have a democracy left in which we can have the luxury of casting a "principled" vote in ever again.
For those who fear a President Romney, don't worry about it because it isn't going to happen either way. Either Romney will lose the nomination or he'll lose to Obama in November. Choose your poison accordingly.
For even if Mitt Romney was a conservative we could get behind, he just does not have a very good track record in elections. Mitt Romney is a pushover, a milquetoast who has only won ONE election in his political career and even that was a unimpressive 5-point victory in the Massachusetts 2002 gubernatorial election against one of the biggest lightweights the Democrats ever ran in a statewide election (Shannon O'Brien). How much of a lightweight was Shannon O'Brien? Well, despite being a lifelong Massachusetts resident, I had to Google Mitt Romney's Wikipedia article to get her name because I had forgotten all about her.
Once in the governor's chair, Romney was so disinterested in the job that he didn't even run for re-election, nor did he ever prepare a successor, saddling us with the Obama-clone Deval Patrick. Romney apparently only used the governorship to impose mandatory health care, an initiative that he hoped he could use as a springboard for the 2008 presidential campaign.
That was the only political election Romney ever won. In 1994, which, remember, was a big Republican year, Romney was trounced by Ted Kennedy in a senate bid. And some Republicans think they want this guy to be their standard-bearer against Obama in 2012?
Trust me, if Romney gets this nomination, the only thing Romney will need to work on next summer is his concession speech - which is something, I might add, that he has more than a little experience with.
Romney will go down in history with John McCain and Bob Dole as just another gracious loser - a nice guy running an uninspiring campaign while the liberal Democrats kick his ass from Maine to California.
Excellent post.