[ansel12]

If you Republicans don’t trust or like Mitt Romney, I don’t know why you think we Independents will trust and like him.

One thing that is becoming very clear nationally, is the fact that his own party distrusts the man, and thinks of him as a sleazy phony, a fake of a man with no ideology or convictions, or character, simply a raw, unexplained obsession to be President of all of us, that is unlikely to endear him to the people who don’t fully trust the GOP anyway.

[SupplySider]

I think the reason many Republicans are hesitant about Romney is that they are afraid he'll do what Bush Sr. did on taxes, or what Bush Jr. did on spending.

I know I fear that.

But that might actually help him with self-styled "moderates" and other left-leaning independents, who view "right wing conservatives" unfavorably.