It’s not a matter of being consistent.
Romney’s got nothing to do with this. Romney may not win in November but we still have a decent chance of winning the Senate. We’ll need a majority in the Senate to offset a second term for Obama.
If you hate Romney, that’s fine. But you’re using him as a foil to excuse commentary uttered by a Senate candidate in Missouri.
I'm using Romney to prove my thesis that Christian conservatives get thrown under the bus by the GOP elites for stuff that RINOs never would. If Romney said the exact same thing, they'd be explaining it away as a simple mistake and there would be no calls to take him out of the race.