Everyone can sweat all they want about Mitt, but the one I'm keeping an eye on as a front-runner in a Romney-less primary is Jebba the Bush.
He's quietly but surely moving around the states, meeting with the right people, talking to the right groups, getting his donors on board, and working with the media.
He will be well-financed and he certainly has experienced hands on deck who will promote him from here to kingdom come when the right time arrives.
Leni
...AND he has enemies who will immediately defame him as a child molester, wife beater, fascist, corrupt politician... not to mention he is a BUSH! AND, he is for amnesty - he has an Hispanic wife.
Of course, the same is true of Ben Carson: he will be portrayed as a greedy physician who killed babies and mentally ill folk for profit, who abused his children by forcing them to play school sports, who is a big reader of Mein Kampf, etc., etc., etc.
Our enemies will do anything to win while our side harrumpfs and guffaws and trusts to the general status of the welkin.