[Windflier]

I would only work (and this just barely!) if Romney had a sudden epiphany regarding RomneyCare. Acknowledged it was a flat failure, he was foolish for doing it, it was against his better business judgment, but he let himself be talked into it...

Romney knows that MassCare is completely radioactive, and a real deal breaker for most conservatives. That's why he's not talking about it, nor defending his role in its implementation. He can't take it back, or apologize for it now, because that mea culpa would sink his ship even faster than if he just avoids the topic.

The fact that his judgement and personal integrity failed so badly that he signed that commie legislation into law, is a bridge that he can't cross back over. It's done, and he has to live with the repercussions, whatever they are.

[Reily]

I agree!
My supposition was he could only offer a very thin gruel to conservatives as a “mea culpa” at this late stage. Every day he doesn't it grows thinner, to non-existent. To me he is done! But my eye is always on the ball of making sure Zero is a one termer I will take any ticket combinatorics I can get to get rid of that monstrosity!