Well it finally happened. Now that Santorum dropped out, America will have a flip-flopping, neoconservative, universal healthcare supporting, one-term governor of Massachusetts on the Republican ticket.

This means the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama is now running against Obama. The only question remaining is whether untold millions in Super PAC money will be able to propel Romney, the man John McCain has called a “flip-flopper” and a “phony,” into office.

Romney ran for senate and governor in fairly liberal Massachusetts, supporting gay rights, universal healthcare and Planned Parenthood along the way. One would think this represents his core values. But now that he is on the Republican ticket those values seem to have shifted; maybe his core values are simply whatever is needed to be elected.

Romney then began running for president in 2007, and he is no better at it now than he was when he lost to McCain. The only reason he will make it to the ticket this time is the frighteningly pitiful field of opponents and the Super PAC money used to not so quietly silence them.

That’s the only way Mitt can do it though, through mass amounts of money. What else is a man who lacks charisma or any remote source of connection to the common man supposed to do? People have called him a mannequin, wooden and robotic. This prompted Bill Maher to start a Twitter hashtag, #TheLeastInterestingManInTheWorld.

How should he connect? Should he talk about sports? Sorry, Romney only knows owners, not players. How about pets? How about cars? How about pets on cars? Romney owns a few cars though. He parks them in his $25,000 car elevator at one of his many mansions which he pays for with his numerous offshore bank accounts used to dodge taxes. But don’t you dare fault him for being rich! He is a job creator, for Pete’s sake. That’s why his firm, Bain Capital, gutted companies, slashed jobs and then sold them off for millions in profit (even if they went bankrupt after).

It’s embarrassing and slightly dumbfounding watching those who call themselves conservatives try to buy into the facade and rally around Romney. Maybe it’s their deeply rooted and uneducated hatred for President Obama or maybe they just aimlessly play follow the leader; either way they must turn a blind eye to Romney’s elitist moderate background in order to embrace his pseudo-conservatism.

Some aren’t fooled though. As one NRA member in thinkprogress.org who listened to Romney’s pandering this week put it, “I heard Romney’s (speech). I think he’s an idiot. And I’m a Republican. … I believe that people should stand up for their principles and I think that he panders to whoever he’s talking to.”

Ask a Romney supporter why he should be president. If the answer is not something about his stint at Bain Capital being, as one Republican called him, a “vulture capitalist,” then it’s about how awful Obama is, but never about Romney’s strong core values. That’s because the rest of his political record, his social record and his not-so-conservative-values, are disgraceful. Not disgraceful in the sense that he was a poor leader but in the sense that he didn’t eliminate taxes altogether, take health care away or “boo” gay soldiers.

That, however, pales in comparison to his blatant flip-flops on a numerous amount of topics. He was anti-Reagan, and now he is pro-Reagan. He owned a gun then he didn’t. He was for and against gun control. He was a believer and a skeptic in Global Warming, he supported Planned Parenthood but now he wants to abolish it, was for and against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and the kicker, he has been on both sides of the abortion debate. Some want to call him a RINO (Republican in name only), but you can’t even pinpoint his beliefs long enough to do that.

Through all the flip-flopping, all the lies and all the faux Republican rants about being a “severe conservative,” Romney has led us here. It’s a curious place to be, not knowing if the potential president has any true self-identity, any true values or core ideals. Not knowing if the next political wind will shake his ideological etch-a-sketch enough to reset it, as it has many a time. It’s a truly scary thought in regard to a potential president because, as Malcom X said, “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”