I'm sure you'd like to think that. But despite favoring gay rights, believing in madmade global warming, favoring gun control, and other liberal stands, for whatever reasons you want to imagine the fact remains that Mitt is strongly disliked by independents, which you admit. Add to that his problem with conservatives rightly mistrusting him and people like me who will never vote for someone so slimy, and he is utterly unelectable.
Why are you trying to push this unelectable fraud?
Because in the primary he is still showing as more electable than the other “electable” conservative Fred Thompson, and it looks like he’s more electable than Fred Thompson in the general election.
If I were to decide that I had to switch because of electability, I would be moving to the left, not the right, because the two candidates to “the right” are less electable according to all the polls and primary results. I’d love for that to change, because my criteria is the most electable conservative, and if Thompson looked more electable he’s obviously a conservative.
If I didn’t think McCain could crash and burn at any moment, he might well be my 3rd choice. If Huckabee didn’t just rub me so much the wrong way, he could be my 3rd choice. If Giuliani wasn’t Giuliani but was some other guy who was conservative, he could be my 3rd choice.
Frankly, there is a gulf between Romney and the rest of the field, so it seems like a good place to make my stand. You see a gulf between Thompson and Romney and have chosen to make your stand there, but at the moment, your candidate isn’t winning in the electability sweepstakes.
If we were purists, we’d be voting for Hunter and saying to heck with electability.