Yet you seem to rank Romney slightly over Gingrich in your previous post.
Slightly as how ? By a comma or a full stop ? I am not aware of this.
Romney is a cold fish without an ounce of the “common touch” and he can easily become extremely unpopular. He is untrustworthy on the critical matters that a president actually controls (and policy towards abortion and homosexuality aren’t under his control). He is very likely to cave in a legislative crisis over the critical legislation we need to massively deregulate - if this isn’t done, quickly, we are toast. Romney has form here, he has caved more than once.
If he does bring a horde of Mormons into the white house that would be the best thing he could do, most of these fellows would probably be more competent than he is, have a solid group consciousness and derive confidence from it, and perhaps more inclined to purge the civil service and the regulators. I suspect though that he won’t have the guts to do it.
He would be a failure with the press from the first day.
Gingrich has a talent for directly annoying people, and though he can please the crowds on occasion, he is just as capable of falling on his face. All presidential candidates are almost pathologically arrogant, but he has the fault of letting it show. He could certainly also fail like I think Romney would, through a failure of nerve. He has form here too.
He has absolutely no track record with appointments that I can see, and brings no shadow cabinet or executive staff with him, which is a grievous fault.
He could, perhaps, conduct a successful rhetorical war with the press, but the odds of this succeeding are at best 50/50.
Both will TRY to appoint acceptable Supreme court judges. Who would do better at this ? i don’t know. Even Bush did quite well in the end, after much howling and gnashing of teeth, so we may be happily surprised.