Even though the future is one of the most difficult things there is to predict, in this case it’s not that hard. Santorum and Gingrich, though we love them both most of the time—nearly all the time—couldn’t beat Obama in the general election, and won’t get the chance. Romney has a 50-50 chance. It’s true that the Obama machine hasn’t gone to bear on him, but we haven’t really gone negative on Obama like we will next summer.
Romney is the only chance we have this time. And even though the negative points in this piece are true, there are some fairly strong counterbalancing positives. He has given some brilliant responses in the debates. (As well as a few lame ones.) And he has lots of good people—like Judge Bork—working on his team. That is a huge positive.
The more you needlessly tear down Romney at this point, the more you are playing the Dem’s game. It’s that simple.
It is certain that Romney is unelectable. Romney supporters don't want to hear it but its true.
Gingrich and Perry have had the guts to bring up one more of Romney glaring negatives, that of being an uber-rich job firing machine from a privileged family whose first job in his life was telling CEOs what to do.
Because "he likes to fire people" he will not appeal to working class social conservative, to working class independents, or to Reagan democrats. He will lose a significant portion of the religious conservative vote due to his liberal pro-abortion, pro-gay positions. This article has the integrity to mention that Mitt's mormonism will be an issue for a select number of religous conservatives. However small that number is, it is still someone either not voting at all or voting for a 3rd party candidate. Mitt Romney is Barack Obama's dream candidate. I think his nightmare candidate would be a fired up Rick Santorum with his populist conservatism. I do believe that Newt would rule the debates, and that gives him a good chance to get ahead of Obama, and Newt's recent populist support for "fair free markets" innoculates him (same with Perry) against Obama's attack on the 1%. Ad-Mitt Romney Will Lose.