Sorry, doesn’t wash. Goode was a cultural democrat, and during his tenure his voting record was more conservative than the republicans. As a republican his voting record was more conservative than republicans.
IOW, he did NOT fit in either of those parties.
Zell Miller is always held up as the ideal conservative democrat. Virgil Goode’s conservative rating was twice that of Millers.
But, let’s give Romney a review. Is Romney, in your opinion, a solid conservative politician?
The unity for third party candidates is as poor as the unity in the notMitt vote in the primary. And the candidates are even weaker.
Pogo should be the mascot.