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Much like Romney himself, I’ve found myself with multiple, conflicting, opinions.  He’s spent the entire campaign pandering to the basest instincts of GOP voters,  and seeing the GOP voters reject him and what he’s representing is pretty satisfying.  On the other hand, I can’t escape the thought that with his public and private sector executive experience, and with our economy looking extremely precarious, he has a lot to recommend himself as the right man for the country right now.  There is a major disconnect between who he says he is, and who he was  and really is.   He became a panderer, sold off all his old positions like a stock that wasn’t profitable anymore, and tried to be who he thought the voters wanted him to be. And apparently misjudged badly.  I find it more than a little ironic that his newly strident position on immigration may have hurt him enough in Florida among Hispanics to cost him a shot at the Presidency. More than a little satisfying, too, to be honest.  Even for the GOP voters  in Florida for whom illegal immigration was the MOST important issue,  McCain pulled around 25%, only 10-15 percentage points behind Romney.  Meanwhile, Romney’s nativist tone killed his popularity with enough other voting blocs to perhaps cost him a chance at the nomination….