It's interesting that not one single poster seems to have addressed my original question...will the various single issue factions of the GOP come together and compromise with one another to support Mitt Romney in his campaign to displace Barack Obama?

Everyone says that Obama should be replaced, but no one has addressed the possibility or probability that it might happen, and more importantly what's necessary in order that it can happen.

Very simply (the arithmetic being my opinion, of course), if any faction of narrow interest Republicans refuse to support Romney, or any other GOP candidate for that matter, it's game-set-match to Obama in an easy win. The only other factor that could come into play is if there are enough centrist Democrats willing to switch over and vote for the GOP candidate than there are narrow interest defectors from whichever candidate is finally selected. (That's a development only likely to come into play if Romney, a centrist Republican who has proven a willingness to compromise, is the candidate finally chosen.)

This election would be close if somehow the Republicans could suddenly pull their act together and throw all their support and lots of money behind one single GOP candidate. If that candidate is out on the fringe somewhere, like Santorum, Paul or Perry, then the GOP centrists would have to swallow hard, compromise, and back one of them totally. If the candidate is Romney, then the Tea Party, ObamaCare haters, right-to-lifers and Christian conservatives are going to have to line up in lock step behind him. If there are GOP defectors in either circumstance, like I said...it's a really easy re-election for President Obama.

So again the questions: What's going to happen? Where do you stand on the question? Will you enthusiastically support and vote for the Republican candidate, whomever that might be and wherever he might stand on the conservative spectrum?