"I did not blog on it at the time because I perceived
it to be people trying to finish off Romney.
It likewise seemed clear to me that if this
was going on, it was people loyal to Romney
who were still hoping for his come back and
not Romney himself."
Note that you took out that it was the past tense.
The author, like everyone else, has since learned about Romney-the-ShapeshiftingBACKSTABBER.