Is there any reason to think that Romney will not be the default nominee?

[beagledave]

Bachmann..Trump...Cain...Perry...

They've all had their 15 minutes of "well maybe THIS one will make us forget Romney"


But Romney is the one still hanging around.

With the money.

Picking up more endorsements.

What are the chances that the 2012 election will NOT be Romney/Someone vs Obama/Biden

[cbelt3]

At the end of all the strum und drang, the candidate selected to attempt to defeat the incumbent will be the one most.. like him.

Of course the veep candidate will reflect whichever cult uh fringe group um... activist collective that has the greatest voice.

[Mac1337]

WIth documents leaked no doubt by the White House that Obama extensively consulted Romney advisors to draft Obamacare, we know who Obama wants to run against. Add to this the endorsement of Christie, which you might think is a positive, and Romney's chances are not good.

[OWC Jamie]

I hope he flip-flops his endorsement a dozen times between now and next November.

[rgG]

As they say, follow the money.

[rjmacs]

Dakota wrote:
WIth documents leaked no doubt by the White House that Obama extensively consulted Romney advisors to draft Obamacare, we know who Obama wants to run against. Add to this the endorsement of Christie, which you might think is a positive, and Romney's chances are not good.

I think the present question isn't really whether the primary electorate likes Mitt, but whether they like anyone else better. As long as the rest of the more Tea Party-palatable candidates are splitting that crowd, Romney stands to win by simply being different. It would be a very different race if we were down to Romney and Bachmann right now, or Mitt vs. Herman.

[Mac1337]

I won't write Perry off just yet but he has a big hill to climb. He can't undo the policies he has put in place. It is not a matter of debate performance. His latest explanation that what he did is good for Texas but perhaps nowhere else makes him sound like Romney. I for one won't give a damn who is declared "electable" by the press. I'll vote for whom I like. To tell you the truth, I'd rather have Obama in the White House than McCain. McCain would have turned Republicanism into something we couldn't have recognized.