BTW, his theory that you can ever go to the middle is totally wrong.
There is no middle. The political array is that of a bi-modal saddle with a thin fringe surrounding the two major nodes. After all, human beings are three and four dimensional critters. That simplistic left right thing that started on one side with hereditary kings and ended up on the other side with nomadic hunter-gatherers, just doesn't describe the modern world ~ besides that was put together by Frenchies to provide safe seating for members of Parliament.
What a mistake.
Romney and the Mittbots, the GOP-e, the Texas Republican Party, and hundreds of other political groups in rough orbit near the Republican party are simply factions in a coalition. Free Republic is a different sort of faction since, in reality, it is a coalition of disparate elements who would not normally be found in the same place most of the time. This is thanks to the genius of the founders and the long term supporters who think its better to counsel together than to set fire to paper bags filled with dog doodoo sitting on the neighbor's porch!
We could even get together with Romney if he was able to get out of that isolation box he put himself into so long ago. At the moment he is a lost cause!
Not true.