Well, HERE I'd cut a little slack. He's a newcomer to any true party power, while the other, more villainous RINO's have been entrenched now for a decade or more.
They can play him, even, until he gets a sense of the lay of the land. This event may have been most instructive to him.
All conjecture, on my part, but the next few weeks will tell us something.
He’s been the backup/choice since McCain. He is FAR from the new kid. Everything the GOP has done since 08 has been geared for MR2012.
To think Romney is a bystander in the GOP mechanations to get him elected is not credible. He, if his life is any indication, is a man fully in charge of his destiny. He would no more leave the GOP to call the shots than he would any VP in his business ventures.
Romney’s PERSONAL pick of Paul Ryan is what started the gears turning in my head about him. He went against the advice of his advisors and picked a real, true, TEA Party Conservative. I don’t picture Mitt Romney as someone who can be pushed around.
I’m not saying he is, or ever was, my preferred candidate, but he IS a hardnosed businessman, one side of a two edged sword. Let’s see how well he wields it.