Since I am an old fart I can remember the original ABM Treaty from the 1970’s….it was the treaty that limited and was to eventually ban missiles that carried nuclear warheads and it was between the US and the old USSR….there has been much controversy from the time it was signed in 1972 until 2002 when the US pulled out of the treaty……sorry….I digress….the ABM Treaty I am writing about is NOT about missiles but the GOP candidate Mitt Romney.

The ABM stands for “Anybody But Mitt”……..I say that because every poll taken, no matter by whom, shows that the GOP base is not happy with any of their candidates…..and the one that is getting the least amount of respect is their frontrunner……Mitt Romney.  Mitt has all the excitement of paint drying.

There is so much that the conserv base dislikes about their frontrunner……he is a flip-flop, he gave Obama a health care program, he was pro-choice before he was pro-life, he is a Mormon (thought no one will admit it) and he has all the excitement of crab grass…..and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head…..believe me there are many more things the base does not like……Hell, his fundraising has been so low that that he had to go to London looking for fresh donors…….

I think he is the frontrunner only because it is his turn in the GOP rotation…..a typical tactic of the Party…..no matter where he goes….there he is……there is NO passion among his supporters….if their were he would have attracted big rollers as advisers….instead these people are aligning themselves with candidates like Michele Bachmann…….

As the primaries progress and Romney does NOT do well…..he will be asked to drop out and make room for someone who could possibly win the 2012 election…..right now I do not believe that there are many in the GOP that think he can beat Obama in the Fall of 2012….even though he may be the most mainstream candidate….few think he has the talent to lure the so-called independents.

Unless he catches fire with the base…..he is NOT what they are looking for in a candidate to go against a sitting president.  And that is why it is “Anybody But Mitt”  (ABM)………..at least for now……