Give or take a decade or two. There was nothing impressive about this guy. He proved only that he would have told you ANYTHING you wanted to hear.
Look at the things he said to become governor in a liberal state and compare those things to the things he said to become president. He'd say ANYTHING.
Obviously, talk and a ton of money wasn't enough.
Romney has always been an empty suit.
And the fact that the minority of voters that supported Fred are going to pick up their marbles and go home is almost meaningless.
The moderate independent and democratic men will more than make up for your loss. Hillary can barely find a man to vote for her fat rear end.
And, the pundits wonder why Obama cannot get more than 20% of the white vote down south. Duh?
McCain has the best chance to pick up the moderate Republican, Independent, and Moderate Democratic vote. While he may have lost the fringes, he will more than make up for with the folks that NEVER would have voted for Bush.
While you may think of him only as a RINO, in 2008-2012 that is the best that we can do since Bush messed it up.