Romney is an old school, blue-blood conservative. He flip flops because, face it, you can't win the primary without pandering to the religious right.

While flip-flopping is despicable, it is forgivable in Romney's case. He's the only one who is center-right on the economy and center on social policy, so he gets my vote. Parties with religious and socially right agendas should be outlawed under a separation of church/state law.

Cain is lolz and an elitist. Both his "999" plan and sexist affairs are proof of his contempt for equal opportunity and meritocracy.

i think romney was a strong candidate to win the primary until he resorted to using an out of context ad about obama.  there is so much real crap you can say about obama if you want to run a negative campaign that you dont have to run a false ad and then get humiliated trying to run some sort of retraction.  even fox news faulted him on that. 

bachmann is either really stupid or has a poor support team. she can't answer a direct question like the rest of the candidates at least try to do and sounds more like the obama type of drone like candidate

huntsman and santorum have occassional smart answers but wont get enough support

Perry simply won't get support after poor showings at the debates and because of immigrant programs

Cain or Gingrich are only comptetitors in my opinion.  I think Cain is intelligent and at least successful at business which is more than we can say about Obama but his idea to simply get rid of the current tax code is unrealistic.  Gingrich will lose a lot of his conservative support through his "amnesty" opinions but there are also a lot of  less conservative republicans who will support that.

Long story short, i am currently torn between voting for Cain or Gingrich.

i refuse to hop left with the GOP

for instance, why are we in the WTO?  To preserve our manufacturing sector?  Doesn't it mostly just assemble prefab materials for the American market?
Isn't yielding decisions on our tax rates and antitrust laws, a massive assault on our soveriegnity?
Why are we in NATO? the UN?  Are we just cruising wtih the flow?

What's the plan to win in Afghanistan?  If we aren't going to win, why not?
If our current military can't beat goatherders, how do we project a credible deterrent to China and Russia?  If we're going to avoid fighting China and Russia, see above NATO issue.
if we're going to be superfrance that can fight anything without an air force, do we still need 10 Nimitz class carriers?

what's the GOP plan to reform the judiciary? is there still a GOP plan to reform the judiciary, or did it get dropped when we realized the GOP Senate caucus doesn't want any part of it?

Do we oppose the modern "progressive" sensibility that life without Medicare, Medicaid, the Dept.s of Energy, Education and legalized abortion was unliveable and a failed society?  If not, what steps have been taken to coordinate with congressional candidates to do something about it?

Why does a Republican House agree to vote up a budget to spend more money, when nobody can make them do that?  What are we going to do about it?

Why are we debating a "replacement" federal insurance plan, when we never had one up to the present?

Why declare we can't deport 15 million people?  If you can't deport them, why should they give a damn what you order them to do?

I haven't changed my views on any of those issues for 30 years.  It's the GOP that's gone squishy.

too bad, I liked Cain but he keeps acting like he is okay with not winning.