Frank Cannon is president of the American Principles Project and a respected conservative political strategist with over 30 years of experience.

The idea that Mitt Romney gets to decide what conservatism is, is beyond absurd to me. This is a guy who spent a lot of his career moderating and changing his positions to be electable, and now he becomes the standard of what is “beyond the pale”; it’s beyond humorous to me. And the fact that he is a guy who accepted the Republican nomination and expected the rest of the party to fall in behind him, which it did, who now has decided that he gets to have another standard of what is reasonable before the party can coalesce is beyond annoying to me.

I don’t like Mitt Romney. . . .