I respectfully disagree. As much as I despise Romney (there are years worth of my anti-Romney statements here on FR), I can see him gutting out an EV win. When people are paying $5+ for a gallon of gas, Soetoro can't recover from that. Of course, I won't be voting for Romney under any circumstance.
That being said, he would be a GHWB-type of “Republican” president and do little to remove the damage Soetoro was unleashed.
Disclosure: I'm a Newt backer, and a Perry backer before him.