Of the candidates who ran? That is easy. Ron Paul.
Conservatives did vote for Mitt, but their numbers are not high enough to win the election for him. Plus he failed to support the Tea Party, so many of their members abandoned him in his typical idiotic effort to attract moderate voters....what a fool....but you agree with his strategy.
As Zero Hedge stated, had Mitt gone after the libertarian vote he might have won, but he choose to insult them. Many libertarians refused to vote or voted to someone other than Mitt.
Mitt ran a shitty campaign (but I suspect he ran the kind of campaign you prefer). He refused to go after BO hard on important issues like Bengazi, Fast & Furious, deficit spending, economy, etc. He needed to hammer home the problems we face thanks to BO and do it in dramatic fashion. And he failed to realize the MSM was out to destroy him. He needed to attack BO and the MSM concisely and consistently.
He thought he could win since the economy is so bad. He thought wrong.
You think Romney ran a good campaign, but was hurt by a lurch to the right to win the nomination. I dispute this completely. It is nonsense.
