Someone opined that he left the "Mittness Protection Program". Good luck with him righties.
I don't think he's going to have any support amongst the right. I think he's running on the "inevitability" platform, and it's going to work out as well for him as it did for Hillary.
As someone points out, this is a pretty right-leaning board, but I don't see a whole lot of pro-Romney posters here or a lot of pro-Romney threads. That tells me his support is a yard wide and an inch deep.
And the other moderate "RINO" candidates who the MSM keep telling us are the "Grown-ups" of the GOP are polling in low single digits. Pawlenty is rating 2.8% average on the RCP polls, and Huntsman is so low they don't even bother listing him. (By comparison, Gingrich still rates at 4.8%, even though everyone admits his campaign is in full rigormortis. )
Romney is running a 21.6% average, which makes him the "frontrunner". But the three conservative choices- Bachman (13.2) Perry (12.6) and Palin (12.1) could easily beat him if they agreed on a single candidate. Palin is almost probably not running, and I think Bachmann will implode long before Iowa.
RealClearPolitics - Election 2012 - 2012 Republican Presidential Nomination
If you have to run to the right to get a nominee, that's not boding well for the GOP chances in the Fall of 2012 because if elections are won in the 20% between the hard right and hard left, Obama keeps the hard left which is not hypersensitive or perhaps because the likes of a GOP white house is so unappealing.. I don't think its as easy for any GOP nominee to keep the hard right which demands no taxes (for now) and lord-knows-what-else next. If he has to run to the right to win the primary, he has to run to the left--if you believe the old adage about the independent voters--to win the election.
I wouldn't be surprised if the tea party puts the BBA up as the next acid test forcing all GOP candidates to sign the pledge to back the BBA or they won't get the support they covet.