You're right -- how do you think he managed to, after the second time around (part 2 of the 2008 primary), get the nomination in a party where, truth be told, he has no business judging by his actual record?
Very very competitive and aggressive. He plays hardball -- witness the $$$$ attack ad campaing on Newt, and the primaries where some kind of deadline was missed and Romney and I think Paul (I've forgotten) were the only official guys on that state's primary ballot. That's hardball, like a good businessman with a good organization behind him.
If Romney wins, that is what conservatives in the Republican party would be going up against, that kind of aggessiveness and competitiveness.
Come summer of 2013, it won't matter what you voted against, only what you voted FOR.
“...the primaries where some kind of deadline was missed and Romney and I think Paul (I’ve forgotten) were the only official guys on that state’s primary ballot.”
I think that was Virginia.