Well, it looks like Romney is spinning his wheels (and his head) trying to figure out how to please everyone. First, he wants to please his wealthy buddies (his REAL agenda), but he knows he can't get elected with just their votes. So he wants to please the Tea Party types, whose votes he needs, but he can't do that without offending the hispanics, whose votes he also needs.
The Tea Party has become so toxic to the Republican Party that main stream Repubs are embarrassed by them. Romney wants to please main stream Repubs too, but how can he do that when he has to please the wackos and fundies? He needs the votes of these birthers and Limbaugh junkies, but if he says what pleases them, the main stream folks will consider HIM a wacko.
Meanwhile, independants are scratching their heads trying to figure out who the REAL Romney is and realizing that they are better off re-electing the man they know, rather than this big unknown.
But it all comes down to the wackos in the Tea Party. After listening to the bubblehead twins (Palin and Bachman) during the primaries, most people with common sense realize that the Republican Party has been taken over (or at least there has been an ATTEMPT to take it over) by a group with tunnel vision, or rather a complete lack of vision, ability, sense, or sanity
Between them and the sour taste left by the Bush disaster, I predict that it will be a L O N G time before a Republican is elected president in this country.