Except Mitt will not get the nomination. No one save junkies and Mormons know about him. He comes across as plastic and fake as John Edwards. He can not win the GOP nomination for love nor money( tried one, wants the other)
Mitt is trying to do nationally what he did in Mass. Win over the establishment. In many ways the dynamic is the same. A bad Democrat party, bad to weakening economy, a weak partly desperate GOP( has been since Reagan ).
But there are differences. Mitt’s cheese weasel positioning, er...strategic marketing.., all were in the Massachusetts voter’s comfort zone. This is after all the state that kept drunk, murderous Ted and bumm blaster Bwarny Fwank in.( there are a good fifty more common politicians of equal or worse types which are not national know names).
However the nation isn’t Massachusetts, and the national body of GOP voters is a lot, way way way lot( this is why Mittens has scurried over to the conservative marketing ) than Mass republicans.
Further, Mitt’s money, even Mormon money, isn’t big enough nationally.
So, Mitt can not talk in other than a cheese weasel don’t look at my single term of elected office and convincingly be conservative enough, no matter what he says, and he doesn’t have the money to buy it, and he getting the support of a leadership that is held in contempt and distrust by the majority of Republicans that vote in the primaries( think Steele ).
But you don't have to be that conservative to win the GOP nomination.
You only have to be conservative enough to win in a few early, liberal, crossover voting, winner take all states.
And that ain't very conservative, FRiend. Ask McQueeg.