If Romney waded into Chick Fil A or Bachmann there's too much of a risk that the media would try to make these stores the main issue all the way up to Nov. 4 and we would lose independents.
Well, since the biggest voting block is Conservatives, and fully 60% of Conservatives now stand outside of the Republican party... Where do you suppose those Conservatives are, and how do you appeal to them? I think worrying about 'upsetting the independents' is ill-informed and a misdirection.... We ARE the independents.