I don’t think the onerous Romney is going to have much luck in doing this. No matter what the Paul people have been doing, this will come across as “carpetbaggers” coming in from out of state to get the results they want, indifferent to the state itself.
They should have seen this problem months ago and done something about it then. As it is, it will be seen as another indicator of how the onerous Romney would run the federal government. And of how generally unprepared he is.
That is, if the onerous Romney is trying to force national compliance of something he wants, and a state resists, he will use federal power to force them to do what he wants.
Think “Romneycare”. “It’s not like Obamacare. It’s better! Because it’s socialized medicine that works! And I’m not going to let some “dysfunctional” state stand in the way of ‘affordable health care’(tm) for all Americans!”