But support Romney or not, I can't see much point in hounding or vilifying him (you do realize that you can oppose someone without doing that -- or maybe you don't). In any case, carrying on the abuse after he ceases to be a factor looks like a waste of time.
I guess you think your bona fides are proved by obsessively attacking Romney. I'm not sure that was ever the case. All this repeated talk of "contamination" may mark you down as something more dangerous. But by now it's probably time to move on to something more constructive.
Your obsessive defending, promoting, legitimizing of Mitt Romney is well recognized, you have an agenda, and he serves it at this point, plus you respect and embrace the views of the failed governor, whack case.
Romney wanted to run for reelection in Massachusetts, but he failed in that endeavor and had to end that dream when his own internals told him that he had disastrous poll numbers.
Romney devastated the state party, crawled out of office with 34% approval, lost the seat to the democrats, and they have held it since, Mitt had been the 4th GOP governor in a row, in a state that normally prefers GOP governors, Mitt has probably ended that.
Now we have to try and fix what he has broken in the national republican party and image.
Romney has contaminated the GOP brand and has introduced hard core leftism and socialism to the GOP presidency, he has made it legitimate to support his radical leftist agenda, and has emboldened players like you.