Romney has the ability to get a large portion of conservatives excited and enthusiastic about conservatism, and about making America MORE free and MORE prosperous.
McCain has the ability to put everyone, even his supporters, to sleep.
We need new blood in Washington,DC.
That was one of the reasons so many smart and influential conservatives like Limbaugh, Ingraham, Weyrich, Dobson, Santorum, DeMint, Tancredo, Sekulow, Jones III, Beck, etc etc were willing to support Romney.
Unfortunately, Romney's downfall was due to his efforts in 1994 to convince Massachusetts voters that he was not this intolerant, intractable, uber-white Judeo-Christian type of patriarch who ONLY accepts other uber-white male Judeo-Christians....
In other words, he verbally pandered to the homo crowd, and the feminist-abortion crowd by claiming (during that debate with Ted Kennedy) he would respect their views and uphold the law.
Once in office in 2002, he governed quite conservatively, and ended up getting good marks from the national ProLife organizations, and from the NRA, and from fiscal tax-watchdog groups.
Those old YouTube clips were what did him in, helped along by the rabid Romney haters with the American Family Association (?) and by Romney haters here on FR.
I am convinced that Romney is a straight-laced conservative in his private and family life, and would be that way as President of the USA.
Your right.