How Safe Is Romney?

Regarding my post on McCain and veepstakes, Andrew writes : McCain-Romney = "do no harm"? Not in the part of the universe I’m aware of. Just to clarify, I think that picking Romney would be a mistake, and that the GOP ticket would be weaker for his presence on it - for some (though not all) of the reasons David Frum’s friend lays out here , and for others as well. But Romney doesn’t come with anything like the risks and/or unknowns associated with some of the other names that have been floated as potential veeps - names like Joe Lieberman, like Tom Ridge, like Bobby Jindal, like Meg Whitman. True, picking a Mormon might depress evangelical turnout, but a McCain-Romney ticket wouldn’t risk a serious intra-party civil war the way McCain-Lieberman or McCain-Ridge might. True, Romney is an epic flip-flopper, but he isn’t an ideological black box with no governmental experience like Whitman. True, he’s got a phoniness problem, but he isn&rsqu...