Below is a posting from Sage McLaughlin at Lawrence Auster’s website. It makes a lot of sense regarding why conservatives should now rally around Romney:
****I think I’ve identified out one of the really key intangibles that sets Romney apart from McCain, Obama, and Hillary. Of those four front-runners, he is the only one that does not have some score to settle, some personal grudge against conservative America. Hillary and McCain both have personal and political scores to settle, wrongs which they passionately wish to set right and which animate their desire to wield power over their enemies. Obama, of course, represents nothing less than a burning desire on the part of black America (and liberal America more broadly) to set white America straight. Even McCain believes the country owes him something, as his increasingly unseemly use of his military record reveals. The egomaniacal Senator from Arizona harbors tremendous bitterness over every political setback—or even criticism—he suffers, and will revenge himself on anyone he thinks has hindered his ascent.
Only Romney does not obviously hate the conservative American electorate, only he does not believe the Presidency is his by right, and only he does not have some personal or historic gripe against his country. For this reason among many others, only he is not an obvious enemy of the historic American society I love. Thus at this time only he qualifies for even passing consideration to receive my vote in November.****
Excellent point.
Having a 'non-white' President wouldn't be punishing 'whites,' either in effect or intent.