How can Romney be "our weakest possible candidate" when he actually won the primary contest?
Is he not stronger -- by definition -- than Santorum, Gingrich, Bachmann, Pawlenty, Perry, Cain, et al.
Who would've been our "strongest" candidate?
Here in Virginia we usually have Presidential primaries that pull in a million to a million and a half people. Recalling we have open primaries that means a lot of cross over voting is possible, and it happens.
These things shouldn't be allowed, but we used to have a one party system, so primaries meant something else.
Romney's wheeler dealers (presumably with his blessing) managed to come up with a new rule 3 days before closing for delivery of the nominating petitions that raised the number of signatures you needed to submit to avoid the validation process.
Amazingly that number was just 500 less than the number of signatures Romney claimed to have, but more than what was claimed by the other candidates.
All at once instead of our having a popular primary part of the Super Tuesday line up we had two guys ~ Romney and Paul ~ and barely 300,000 people showed up to vote.
Romney didn't raise any criticism of this situation, yet, that last minute rule change was certainly tantamount to cheating.
Romney showed us how moral he is in the primary.
He ain't very!
You want to be represented by a low caliber no count cheater, go ahead. I have standards.
Because RATs voted for him in "open primary" states.