Mitt Romney

THE HORROR: Top Conservative Slams Romney For Taking Cues From 'Data'

Brian Beutler | October 28, 2011, 12:43PM

Presidential Candidate And Former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA)

No matter how obvious it seems to outsiders that Mitt Romney's the GOP's most electable potential challenger to Barack Obama, conservatives don't like him. There are a lot of reasons for that. Of course, there's the conviction issue (the impression that he lacks it) and the track record issue (liberal Republican governor of bright blue Massachusetts) but the right's problems with him go beyond the ways in which they feel he's crossed them. Turns out Romney's got an intelligence problem.

Take George Will, a conservative columnist for the Washington Post, part of whose Sunday column was leaked to Politico.

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