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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Michael Luo / The Bulletin
August 16, 2008
On the day Mitt Romney bowed out of the presidential race in February, his supporters latched onto something of a consolation prize that appeared to bode well for his political future: the warm embrace of hundreds of conservatives whose seal of approval he had long sought.
Yet as Romney, a....