see, this could just be from my perspective, which is viewing from the left and I can acknowledge this....but I tend to agree that there really isn't any one stellar candidate in the republican race....
It's like they rounded up their "usual suspects"...a candidate that was in the previous race, (romney), a candidate that was in Congress, (newt), a candidate or 2 that are strong on social issues, (1-Bachman) and a venture capitalist (cain or romney) oh, and a millionaire, (trump), and a Texan (Perry)
let's seeee....who did I miss?
Oh yeah, and Ron Paul...the libertarian....
anyone else?
where is the fire from your gut candidate....? the Republican version of Hope and Change? the New guy with spunk?
I just don't see it....and it usually takes someone like that to beat an incumbent...even if the President isn't in that great of shape..../clinton, bush jr and obama all seemed to draw the crowds across many layers of the republican or Democratic parties...
romney has the most appeal to Democrats out of all of the candidates, but is that really a good thing when it comes to Republicans? for the ones that like romney and support him that's a good thing, but to those who see romney as a RHINO, or a flip flopper, or not strong on social issues, or just a pretty boy, or as a "mormon", the Dems liking romney may not be such a good incentive to get them to vote for him....
romney is just romney.....there is no spark and fire to him....he reminds me of Kerry...only a lot better looking!

I like the guy, as a guy....but I truly don't even see his heart in this race...he's boring, blase....he's the loser from the last race that is giving it a shot again.....
what he's got in his favor is, "I am not Obama" , the crappy economy, and his looks....
He's got to pull people out to vote.....to the polls, or his chances of losing are bigger than one would think and I just don't see him being able to do that with all the different factions of the Republican party...
there's still a lot of time left, so maybe things will pick up a bit and give us all some excitement like it did when hillary was going head to head against obama....