Further, he went out of his way to piss off the Paul supporters and the Tea Party Palin supporters.
So what do you expect?
Romney refused to allow the two most significant political leaders in the party, Ms. Palin and Congressman Paul to speak at the Convention where they would have done a much more effective job of attacking Zero's performance than either Romney or Ryan was able to do in the campaign. Would of cost him nothing.
Instead, he went out of his way to insult them. No real surprise they stayed home.
One of these is a LIE. Palin was offered a prime time spoke and declined saying she had other plans in AK.