The party is already splintered. Many conservatives say they are tired of holding their noses and voting for the lesser of two evils, and that they will not vote for Romney if he gets the nomination.
The only way Romney can unite the party if he is the nominee is to pick a genuine conservative as a running mate and then pretend to be a conservative as Nixon did in 1968 and 1972, and as Bush did in 1988.
I wouldn't vote for Mitt Romney if a resurrected Ronald Reagan was his running mate and Mitt sounded like William Buckley. A conservative VP is only for show to those who are dumb enough to believe that he or she would have any influence in a Romney Administration. Mitt Romney will say anything to get people to vote for him but his track record says that he is a Rockefeller Republican to his core.
Any conservative stupid enough to team up with Romney will be permanently stained for the rest of his or her political career. The ticket will go down in history as the last Republican run for the presidency, the 2012 equivalent of the Winfield Scott/William Alexander Graham Whig ticket.
I would never vote Romney. I don't care who his running mate may be. He represents the embodiment of everything I hate about pandering politicians, not to mention he is a liberal. I despise the man.
WE FELL FOR THAT LAST TIME!!!!! Sarah is the ONLY reason we
accepted McCain, NOT THIS TIME I DO NOT CARE WHO IS ON THE
TICKET,!!!!! FOOL ME ONCE AND ONCE ONLY!!!!!!!