Good Lord man, we don’t Romney to ever speak out again.
Pray that the Romney disaster has been limited to the damage that he has done already in his 20 year political life.
We have to use the coalitions we build, after all, look how many millions of campaign cash was spent on it. If that money were spent on building a factory, we wouldn't walk away from it if the market for the intended product collapsed (except for Solyndra, maybe), we'd keep the factory and repurpose it.
But we just walk away from hundreds of millions of dollars invested in a candidate, instead of using it as an investment to be built upon.
Sure, Romney isn't ideal, but he had the forum for awhile, and we could have used it to some effect.
My original point is still this: You're not relevant unless you are a player. Romney could still have been a player; he still had political inertia to leverage for some good for Republicans, but he chose to let it dissipate.
Palin's momentum has dissipated. She needs to build up new political capital.
-PJ