“Romney is McCain but with worse Christian right numbers. It is Palin drawing crowds not the liberal end of the ticket and only those with the idiot blinders on can’t see it. Romney has no chance at a win, huge portions of Christians can’t vote for him no matter who you put on his ticket with him.”
Exactly. If Romney was such a ball of fire on the campaign trail and the base loved him, he’d be the nominee. He couldn’t even beat McCain, hardly beloved by the base and with nowhere near the financial resources Romney had.
Romney would be fine as a VP pick for a young conservative. He’s a Bush Senior, not the future of the Republican party or the conservative movement.
We got McCain as our nominee because independents and democrats were allowed to vote in some of our primaries and people like Huckabee split the conservative vote with Mitt ushering in McCain who scooped up a majority of the moderate Republicans, indies and dems.
And Romney is NOT McCain. They diasagree on global warming, keeping Gitmo open, federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, a marriage amendment, drilling in ANWR etc. Romney's positions align much more with Palin's.