Mitt Romney got about as positive a review from me as he would have a reasonable right to expect from anyone identified as an Obama-supporting Democrat. "Why Mitt Romney," March 26, 2012 (e.g., "What I see in Romney is a bright, well informed, analytical, hard working, focused, pragmatic, problem-solving manager.")

Of course I disagree with a great many of his positions on the issues.

But after some of my prior choices either never got into, or got in and then dropped out of, the Republican primary, it still seems to me that Romney was clearly the best of those left standing.

And so my position on Romney remained for the four months since that March blog entry -- until this past week.

For the reasons why I'm now concerned, see . . . [More].