Would Mitt Romney be a tougher candidate than John McCain against Obama?

Considering McCain's pathetic speaking skills and zombie look, and he can't raise money, would Mitt Romney have been a better opponent? He is semi-charismatic, has money, and is a good speaker.

Public Comments

1. Romney would have been crushed in a year like this. A centrist Republican was their only hope in a year when so many indicators point toward the Democrats.
2. NO... Polls show he's considerably weaker. However, as McCain's V.P, he would bring important States solidly into McCain's column like Nevada, Colorado, Michigan and New Hampshire.
3. probably just the same
4. Romney Flip flops like a fish
5. I'd like him better but I think McCain with Bobby Jindal as VP would be much stronger 'cuz McCain can attract some of the lefties & Repubs would love Jindal.
6. Romney would have been much tougher, yes. I actually rather like Romney and Im an Obama supporter. I like McCain to a certain extent, but he appears lost and tired recently. I do not think he has what it takes to run the country.
7. doesn't matter, he lost!
8. Romney and Mccain are both pretty weak candidates. But being from Massachusetts I would say Romney has too many skeletons nad would get absolutely destroyed in the general election where as McCain will keep it presentable.
9. Image-wise, yes he would. McWar is a sorry choice. I'm glad they nominated him. He will lose in Nov.
10. Probably not, I really don't think the Christians of this country would vote for a mormon.
11. The problem with Mitt Romney is that he's LDS. I'm all for family values, but not that way. It would have a detrimental effect on his campaign once things really got dirty.
12. Mitt Romney believes in the planet Kolob.
13. If Mitt "Mormon Wife" Romney can't beat McCain, maybe the GOP doesn't want a president this year. I mean, isn't Mormonism a crackpot religion where they prostitute their adolescent girls like that case in Bush's home state? Mormonism has polygamy, and its racist against blacks and Indians. I dont care what Gladys Knight says.
14. We'll never know. All I know is I don't hear a lot of gloating over the Republican primary process anymore. The marathon campaign really helped Obama, and the DNC is in better shape than the RNC....
15. Too much baggage and I never trust anyone from Massachusetts........
16. No, He's got as much as experience as Obama in a high elected office, less overall, and much less public service to his credit so people couldn't use their code talk for experience.
17. Yes. Ron Paul would be better yet, but ANY of our starting candidates with the possible exception of Guiliani, would have been better than McCain. I figure it was the Dems voting in our primary in Florida that got him the nomination to begin with.
18. That's why I voted for Romney in the primaries! Apparently the rest of the Republican Party voters didn't share my view.
19. As a conservative (I can no longer be a Republican since they have become a bastardized bunch of Democrats) I believe almost anyone would be better than McCain. This election we will have to hold our nose and vote.
20. Yes, at least then we would have a Republican to vote for, right now we only have two Democrats and having to choose the lesser of the two evils
21. I actually agree with you on this. He also has more executive experience and would be able to rally the conservative base. He is also running the same "change" platform that Obama is - get a washington outsider into the White House to shake things up. It would be a pretty good matchup. He probably wouldn't do so well with indepedents and "Hillary Democrats" though and I am sure the left-wing smear machine would make associations between him and the recent FLDS scandal even though Romney has nothing to do with it. Bigotry knows no bounds.
22. Romney wasn't really a very good candidate. I'm from Iowa, and Romney started running ads here well before anyone else did, and jumped out to huge lead. And throughout the campaign, there were more television ads for Romney than there were for all other candidates, Republican and Democratic, combined. But he lacked any ability to connect with people. Even the generally very conservative people who attend Republican Caucuses here never seemed to trust him, and in the end they went with the far more down to earth and likeable Huckabee. Even among conservatives, the more they saw of Romney the less they trusted him, and the less they liked him.