Mitt Romney Still Seen as Not Quite Crazy Enough for Chunk of GOP Base

Poor Mitt Romney. What a predicament this guy is in! You're heart really goes out to him, doesn't it?

Sure, he's got a solid business record of screwing over workers in favor of kicking extra money upstairs to all the John Galts in the penthouse. And sure, he's way ahead in the polls.

But he's got this nagging issue of having behaved kind of like a decent human being would back when he was governor of Massachusetts. And that is poison for the Evangelical/Tea Party base…

In June, FreedomWorks invited 150 Tea Party organizers to a planning session where participants were asked for their candidate of choice in the 2012 field. Only one Tea Party activist at the meeting supported Romney, Kibbe said…

Some evangelical Republicans believe they lost their front-runner when former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee decided against another presidential run…

[Family Research Council president Tony] Perkins, who has not endorsed a candidate in the GOP field, noted Romney has some appeal with many social conservatives. But he added there are lingering questions about contradictions in Romney's record.

"It's fair to say there are those who see his record when he was governor of Massachusetts as not consistent with the platform that he ran on four years ago," Perkins said.

You'd think that a bunch of Christians, if anybody, would be able to find it in their hearts to forgive Romney for having behaved in a manner consistent with The Golden Rule.

He was weak, people! He can do better! I know it!

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