Romney thinks he has it...... But deep down, he won’t win the Nomination.
Free Republic is one of the largest Conservative websites if not the largest Conservative gathering website. And it’s an ANTI-ROMNEY website.
He won’t have Conservatives support and Zero would only use that to his advantage.
Romney will never have the Conservative or Tea Party Base. He should have run 3rd party or waited to run as a Democrat.
Romney is DONE.
Gingrich, Perry, Cain, Santorum all sound OK based on their real positions and resume (not the horse dung I'm fed by the media). But Romney is unacceptable.
Guns, taxes, health care, amnesty, abortion, jumping on the global warming fad... Not really sure why he's in the Republican party, frankly. The “only” issue where he's seemed to hold his ground was with gays, and that's literally about it.
No candidate will ever be 100% because in real life, at least those candidates that have a political past, they will have had to make alliances and compromises etc. I take that into account and even Reagan falls into this catagory. However, an 80% answer is good and a reasonable person will tell themselves that a resume albeit not perfect, is better than no resume at all, i.e. the dark-horse candidate that is simply created by savvy campaigns and their advertising.
Romney is a “no go” because of the issues and his positions on them. If his past is indicative of his future, it's one I don't share his vision on. Furthermore, the way he ran his campaign is disgusting. While it was successful to bringing people down like Perry, Cain, and Gingrich, it's not inspired me to support him. I have no partiality to any specific candidate and Perry, Gingrich, Cain, Santorum all had me excited when they were in the lead or as they begin to gain momentum (i.e. Santorum), but Romney and his violations of the 11th Commandment, his political pandering and evasiveness on hot topic issues makes him unpalatable. His mantra is “the last man standing.” I would rather have Palin, someone not even in the race right now be brought onto the ticket!
Really, I'm not even picky: Perry, Santorum, Gingrich, Cain... Anyone except Paul, an unrealistic demagogue that sings sweet lullabies that sound appealing to the libertarians (Yeah, we're going to build a cocoon and as a nation crawl into it and pretend the rest of the world don't exist); or Romney, the Democrat with an R behind his name that is running his entire campaign based on deconstructing his opponents.