The following is a comment I posted online under one of my assumed identities as an anti-Republican troll:
D.R., since you haven't been able to keep up with my comments, I'll
repeat some of them for you. I don't have a problem with Romney, and I
suppose his staffer was being honest when he made the Etch A Sketch
analogy a while ago. Romney knew that to outlast the likes of Santorum,
Bachmann, Perry, Cain, and Gingrich, he had to win at least a share of
the RW lunatic fringe vote, while the others split up the rest among
themselves.
Being an ambitious politician, he's been saying and
doing the things he has to do to survive the primaries, and it's
worked beautifully. Once things are past the point of no return, with
his nomination securely in hand, he'll start sending out signals that
Moderate Massachusetts Mormon Mitt is still alive and well, and I
imagine the odds are better than 50/50 that he'll win in November.
That's when he'll probably cut the lunatic fringe loose for good, and if
he does, he might be a pretty effective two-term president.
I've
been pulling for Mitt all along, and I pulled for him in 2008. As
Republicans go, he strikes me as one of the few good ones. Among this
season's crop, only Huntsman was better. Mitt is above all else
pragmatic and ambitious, and he knows that if he wants to be a president
with a legacy of success, he'll need to govern from the place where
most Americans live.
Bottom line is, I'll probably be happier with President Romney than 75 percent of Republicans will be.