An email: “If Romney had presidential ambitions, why didn’t he run for governor of Michigan? With his money, his Olympic fame, and his father’s name (a former Michigan governor), he could have won in a bluish swing-state. To placate conservatives in the GOP, he would have adopted more pro-life positions back in 2002 not 2007, and would say that he’s not his father’s son. That worked for Dubya.

“What’s more, Michigan’s economy is hurting. If he could have turned that around, he would have a great success story. As we stand, we have the highest unemployment in America.

“As it stands, Romney faces the conundrum of whether to run for re-election in 2006 in a liberal state, only to run as a conservative in the primaries a year later.

“I say this as a citizen of Michigan happy that he left his Rockefeller Republicanism out east.”