I'm a Harvard MBA like Romney and I'm a MA resident. My career was in finance and as a top-ranking M&A executive for major domestic manufacturing companies (I was not a "vulture capitalist"). I am not happy about Gingrich's personal baggage (although the ethics issues related to how that college course was financed are relatively inconsequential) nor am I partial towards Santorum's social conservatism -- it goes too far for me. That all said, I do think that Gingrich is far more capable and principled to lead this country than is Romney and that even Santorum would be the more capable leader. Romney is ethically bankrupt and unprincipled in his political ideology. I'll go further, I think Romney is scum and I think that his campaign tactics evidence his low character. Most importantly, Santorum's latest victories provide further evidence that Republicans in general see through Romney and are calling a spade a spade.

The comments eloquently expressed by indeoebdebtubcc (below) sum up what I feel, and I did not attend Harvard Business School. I did encounter Mr. Romney several times during his numerous runs for public office in Boston, and had the displeasure of interviewing him for a newspaper (not the Globe). I not only found him smarmy, I found him truly distant, the mark of a patrician. Thomas Jefferson was a patrician, too, and had a loathsome side, but he also had talent, vision, and creativity, all aspects lacking in Romney. In short, Mr. Romney is not presidential, since he not only lacks these necessary criteria, but he also lacks backbone. I won't call him 'scum' -- but I have just called him superficial, vapid, and of the manor born. He is to be sent home -- somewhere -- where he can count his money, bask in noblesse oblige, and sink into the quiet of the night.