In the recent IA debate, his answers were near the top of the field, and his presentation was top notch. He looked and sounded like the conservative front runner.
Unless, of course, you knew you can trust his campaign promises about as much as you'd trust McCain's.
I agree. Romney has always been a little creepy with how polished he is. Right out of a casting call.
If Romney has front loaded the primary states with supporters look for him to bounce like a dead cat. I suppose one strategy would be to sweep the early primaries and hope that generated some enthusiasm in later primaries but I don’t think it will work.
I don’t think it’s a Mormon thing either. I live in a heavily Mormon area and work with quite a few of them who are conservatives. They don’t mention him. Don’t hear his name mentioned on the local AM talk politics show outside of the usual recap of poll results. FWIW - I could vote for a Mormon. I am not voting for President not Preacher.
From a political science perspective... I wonder how Romney will be studied in the future given that he has poured everything into the first few races? I was worried a few weeks ago that Romney might win the nomination and frustrated because I could not understand why.
The GOP braintrust would be wise to bring a few conservative states into play early to avoid the RINO bias but sadly, it seems like they favor RINO’s too.