Why Mitt Romney?
The answer is money! Plain and simple, money! John McCain had run out of money early in his campaign and he didn’t have the financial support necessary to mount a successful long-term bid against Democratic Presidential Candidates Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. This stigma applied to Mike Huckabee as well, that he couldn’t raise enough money for a sustainable campaign. But Romney was different, he was independently super wealthy, he could self-finance his campaign, as well as tap his rich Wall Street cronies for unlimited funds. It soon dawned upon the Republican powers-to-be that only Romney had the financial resources to match Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s money machine. Herein, the conservative Republican Party establishment that didn’t support him earlier began to look beyond their past critiques of him and instead started to notice his coffers. This conservative flip-flop also showed America that core conservative principles are negotiable and can be subsumed to political
