[GeronL]

So then... Romney is out??

[SmokingJoe]

Nope.
He is in.
If there is one person I am like 99% sure is going to run in 2012, that is Mitt Romney. Why, the guy hasn't stopped campaigning since 2009. Every move he's made so far this year, is clearly calculated to further his 2012 ambitions. He knows 0bama will lose in 2012 at the rate that 0bama is falling), so whoever the Republican candidate is in 2012, will win it, and he is curently ahead in the polls for the Republican primary for 2012. Why, the guy can almost taste power.