The Mitt Romney check list:
No Sarah Palin to worry about. Check.
No Chris Christie to nip at your heels. Check.
Rick Perry’s campaign fading. Check.
Path to the nomination is clear. Ch … uh, not so fast.
An independent conservative group with ties to the Tea Party Express says it’s funding a series of new television commercials and radio ads in Iowa later this month as part of its campaign to “Stop Mitt Romney” from winning the Republican presidential nomination, according to CNN.
The group, The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama, has released a web video as part of a fundraising effort to pay for what it says will be future ad buys for the TV spot in New Hampshire and South Carolina. The three states, along with Nevada, kick off the primary and caucus season.

While Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who’s making his second bid for the White House, is the GOP front-runner in the most recent national polls, he is not well loved by some in the tea party movement who don’t trust the candidate’s conservative credentials.

“Mitt Romney’s so liberal he’s fought conservatives on abortion, RomneyCare, bailouts, illegal immigration, and much more,” says the narrator in one of the TV ads, which also uses a clip of Romney from his 2002 run for governor in Massachusetts.
Lloyd Marcus, chairman of the group, explained the motivation to block Romney’s march to the nomination:
“If you support the principles of the Republican Party platform, as I do, then it’s important that we make sure the GOP nominates someone who has supported and fought for those principles.  On almost every single important issue facing America today, Mitt Romney has fought against conservatives and Republicans.  He’s been a liberal on fiscal issues, a liberal on social issues, and a liberal on national security issues.  We don’t need the Republican Party to be defined by liberal leaders. We have plenty of Republican-In-Name-Only (RINO) folks in the GOP as is, without having our presidential nominee be one too.”

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