I am inclined to dismiss Roemer out of hand. His fetish for not raising money is a non-starter. And I question his name recognition, he was Governor a long time ago and his White House run was small and barely noticed, he got 1% in the LA primary.
Simply put, Roemer is pro-abort and hasn’t won office since 1987.
“his White House run was small and barely noticed, he got 1% in the LA primary”
How could that be possible? The GOP establishment in PR, from Governor Fortuño on down, was 100% behind Romney, and Romney’s list of delegates included the Senate president, the Speaker of the House, the Mayor of San Juan, the Governor’s Chief of Staff, etc., while the Santorum delegates included the likes of me. Well, political leaders down to the ward level had been instructed to tell people that they had to vote for Romney (which is why he beat out Santorum by like 85% to 8%), but I don’t think they did a very good job with a couple of thousand of voters, since they looked at the ballot, saw the name Buddy Roemer listed first (the order is randomly selected, and candidates appear from left to right on the top of the page), and thought “that must be the Romney guy I have to vote for” and marked an X under Roemer. This was particularly embarrassing given that (i) there were no delegates listed under Roemer’s name, while all those bigshots were listed under Romney’s name and (ii) there was a freaking picture of each candidate above his name. Here’s the ballot: http://209.68.12.238/Primarias2012Rep/docs/PapeletaModelo.pdf