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Getting a little desperate, are we?

Romney also said recently he's no clone of Bush either. It's the kind of things people say in campaign races. They want to signify that they are their own person. It doesn't mean they don't respect and admire that other person or share many common views.

Nobody is going to exemplify all the traits of another person no matter how badly we want them to, and they won't agree with them on every issue either.

For instance, as wonderful as Reagan was, he signed the 1986 amnesty bill. I hope our next president never does anything like that again.

On the other hand, we have to let the past go and come into the present where we see Romney's positions aligning with Ronald Reagan's more than any other top-tier candidate's. Of the top four, Mitt is the only one to support Reagan's Human Life Amendment and he supports the pro-family cause of defining marriage to be between one man and one woman.
Michael Reagan on Romney

These blind Romney-haters here on FR almost make me ashamed of once believing FR members to be a cut above other conservatives.

Romney’s charm, wit, economic success record and solid family values make him one of the strongest candidates the Democrats could face.

He would attract millions of middle-of-the-road voters in addition to the large bulk (about 99-percent, I figure) of Republicans.

Yet these blind Mormon haters just can’t get past that denomination thing.

As a confident conservative Baptist, and proud of it, I would welcome someone as credentialed as Romney as the Republican candidate for US President.

Do I like Hunter, Thompson, and Huckabee?

Certainly. Very much so.

But Romney, as a package, looks to be the best candidate for the GOP.

"Once you get outside of Iowa and New Hampshire, where he has been spending much of his time and campaign war chest, Mitt's numbers are frighteningly bad.

Nationally, other than in August of this year, when Mitt surfed a wave of positive publicity about his victory at the Ames straw poll in Iowa, he has been mired right around the 9%-10% range in national polls. In fact, if you go all the way back to April of this year, you'll find that Mitt's national numbers are at about the same level. Just as a point of comparison, remember John McCain? You know, the guy everyone is saying can't raise money and has no chance to win? He has been -- and is still -- consistently outpolling Mitt Romney nationally.

Things get even worse for Mitt when you look at state polls against the Democratic contenders. Romney, like Giuliani, has been touting himself as a candidate who can give the Democrats problems in 2008 because he can compete with them in the blue states. However, for that strategy to work, the candidate has to be able to hold red states against a liberal Democratic nominee while he tries to bring more blue states into the fold. Rudy Giuliani, at least at this early point, has poll numbers that indicate he might be able to pull it off. Romney doesn't.

In fact, his numbers are much worse than those of Fred Thompson or Rudy Giuliani. How much worse? He actually ties Hillary in Kentucky and loses to her in Kansas and Oklahoma.

If the GOP has to struggle in 2008 to even hang onto red states like Kentucky, Kansas, and Oklahoma, we might as well just give up on retaining the presidency right now."

The Conservative Case Against Mitt Romney