In order....of your points:
No.
No.
Not necessarily.
Maybe.
All of the above to some degree.
And maybe, but I don’t accept your premise totally.
For someone who claims to want to discuss things at a, how did you put it to someone else, higher plane, or some such, that was a pretty murky answer.
Would you rather see Romney than Santorum then? That would tell me pretty much all I need to know.