Like her, I would tend to give Romney the benefit of the doubt as to whether his conversions to conservative was sincere given the constituency which he governed.
The only thing for certain is that the default nominee McCain will not govern as a conservative assuming he can beat the odds and get elected. And Huck was his chief enabler.
One could make the same argument for Huckabee, given that he governed a state in which the legislature was 135 Democrats and 15 Republicans (or very close to that number). Not that I especially care about Huckabee, I'm just saying.
Ann Coulter, like other leading pundits, essentially sold out. Rush, Mark Levin, Ann, and others who claim to be true to conservative principles, tried to market Romney, a very questionable candidate. Granted, he was possibly the most conservative of the remaining three, but he was hardly the great conservative hope the pundits made him out to be.
I’m supported by history. Romney lost because he DID come across as a slick character who had flip flopped on key issues to become electable. He did not connect with voters to any great degree. That isn’t opinion. That’s fact. Whether it was due to his Mormonism or not is debatable, but one cannot ignore the fact he was a weak candidate with virtually no appeal outside of his faction of the party.