Chris Pretty accurate. Romney's problem is that the nomination process is tilted toward conservatives.

Evil "Bush was hardly far-right. Or do you mean far-right as in passing the very expensive Medicare Part D legislation?" That was right-wing as all get-out; a populist, moist-eyed and shamelessly pandering hand-out to the people who would later become the tea party in order to screw over America's young a little more. Conservative? No. Modern American right-wing? Yup. "Or far-right as in bypassing Congress to implement the first stimulus when they would not pass a bill for it? " Oh yes, let us pretend that a crisis-specific bill that most presidents would have been forced to pass somehow fits in the political spectrum. What, do you think it is left-wing to pass such a bill? That if Bush had been more right-wing he would have deferred to the instinctive penny-pinchers in congress? Even ideologues like Bush can do the pragmatic, sensible thing if the problem is pointed into their face like the barrel of a cannon. "Surely you can't mean war policy. If that's far-right, then Obama has recently become more far-right on that than Bush ever was (despite the hawks' arguments to the contrary)." Oh yeah there is nothing ideological about an invasion framed in cultural, jingoist and religious exuberance (for the sake of domestic political successes) that combines increased top-down excesses of power with unpleasantly close ties to corporations and fundamentalist mercenary arms, and then goes on to rewrite the laws of the invaded country so as to provide no-bid rebuilding contracts. As for Afghanistan, that invasion was actually just, just carried out stupidly and often immorally. Obama continues using martial power in Pakistan because he is intelligent, and in Afghanistan because... Well, I'm actually stumped. That place is a lost cause. I see the entire martial policy of Bush to be steeped in a decidedly right-wing and bellicose vision of the world, but that only the invasion of Iraq was a practical representation of that idiotic context. True to his centrism, Obama now applies America's power with a degree of proportionality and accuracy.