re: #129 Atlas Fails

Worse yet, when the GOP inevitably nominates Romney and he runs an uninspired campaign that fails to win him the White House, the base will probably insist that their real problem was running a RINO, and nominate a wackjob ala Santorum in ‘16.

Indeed. A Romney nomination would inspire the same sort of backlash that Kerry’s did in ‘04, with cries of “Moderates don’t win elections, ‘true’ conservatives do!”