If any lesson can be taken from 2012 it is that it really doesn't matter if we run the most moderate, conciliatory, philanthropic, personally generous and decent man available because the left and their media allies will demonize him just as much as they will any hard core right-winger.
We need someone who can talk through and over their smokescreen of bullsh*t.
Romney isn't any of those things, his transfer of wealth to his cult is required or else he cannot become a God and maintain his high position within the cult, or even be allowed to enter the temple and attend services and secret ceremonies there.
I don't know how you can label a man with such deadly and anti-God politics "moderate" and "decent", he is rabidly pro-abortion, and pro-homosexual, has spent years trying to create a lie about Reagan being "adamantly pro-choice" as he tried to turn the GOP into a pro-abortion party and even ran pro-abortion ads in Ohio.