Big time. I totally disagree with the notion Obama and Romney are the same...Romney can be pushed to the right--Rush Limbaugh and Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal have been saying that for a while. Obama cannot.
Obama hates Israel. Romney doesn't.
Obama hates capitalism. Romney is a capitalist, whatever else he may be.
Yeah, Romney has some paternalism in him...but heck, so did Ronald Reagan (did you see Ann Coulter's link to Reagan's 1987 plans for "Catastrophic" national health insurance?)....this doesn't mean he is an Alinsky Disciple.
Of course Romney needs to have a strong conservative House and Senate holding him in check...but I'd rather take my chances at a Romney White House and a couple of Republican houses of Congress than the Obamaphiles and two Democrat houses....hell, look what happened to the Republic from 2009 to 2011.
This is false. If the primaries didn't push him to the right, then the general certainly isn't going to, and neither is having a pliable Congress.