Lets put the current crisis aside for a minute. Romney is even taking flak from his own party, the people who should be supporting him.

Conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham said of Romney that this was a “gimme election”, and that "If you can't beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the party. Shut it down. Start new, with new people."

Ingraham also had unkind words for Romney’s strategist Eric Fehrnstrom. "I'm sure he's a nice guy, but I don't happen to think he represents the best vision for Romney on camera," Ingraham said of Fehrnstrom. "Election after election, we hire people who have lost previous campaigns, who've run campaigns that have failed, who have message campaigns where the message fell flat, and they keep getting rehired ... I don't understand that. I don't know why those are the people you hire."

Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard said, "It's not enough to float like a butterfly. You have to sting like a bee. No sting, no victory."

John Podhoretz of the New York Post wrote, "The Romney campaign seems to have settled on an argument that Obama's poll strength is just a post-convention 'sugar high,' as its pollster Neil Newhouse said in a strikingly infelicitous memo. It's interesting Newhouse hit on the dismissive description of a 'sugar high' -- because a sugar rush is what Romney's side needs."

Columnist George Will is emphasizing a much-repeated sentiment, that Romney is not conservative enough. "Mitt Romney does not have the feeling, the visceral, philosophically sound feeling for what's wrong with the progressive movement in this country," Will said. “He's a good man, a good fellow. He'd be a much better president than the one we've got. But he doesn't -- what I've said before about him is conservatism is a second language for him. And he is still learning it. And it's hard to learn this thing in the midst of a high-stakes presidential campaign."

Weekly Standard columnist Stephen Hayes, talking on Fox News, seemed to agree with Kristol. "I feel like now we've sort of reverted to this pre-Ryan moment -- this safe, cautious campaign."

Finally, political analyst Charlie Cook wrote in National Journal, "This is a very close race and one that still could go either way. But the odds of Romney capitalizing on this economy, and the opportunity it affords, seem lower than they were before the conventions. If Republicans and Romney supporters are growing nervous, they should be."

Those are what the experts are saying. Republican experts. I quoted them on it.