Maybe in your area, but the establishment here LOVED Romney and HATED McCain. It wasn't as anti-McCain nationally as it was in Michigan (going back to Engler/Bush vs McCain rivalries), but Romney was quite popular in DC as well and was quietly the choice of a lot of them.
At this point in 07, McCain was also considered dead in the water. It was Rudy or Romney.
Dead wrong, you are just too politically ignorant to recognize him.
Demanding we find professional politician to rush in to "fix" the current system is the equivalent of putting a drug addict in charge of you bankrupt pharmacy expecting him to "save" it.