I still stand by my original point - Romney has virtually no concrete platform aside from "I'm not Obama" and "his benchmark accomplishment was Obamacare, so I'm going to get rid of that." Let me be clear here - I'm fairly moderate, but I'm registered Republican. And I HATE Obamacare. Far more than any other government action of the past 20 years, including the Patriot Act (which was horrible). But at some point if he wants to run a successful campaign Romney has to take some real stands. I understand that he doesn't want to be specific about what spending he'd like to cut because no matter what it is somebody isn't going to like it. But I think the public as a whole would probably respond better to a reasonably specific plan than a hazy nothing nobody knows if they can trust a little bit or not at all.
Total aside, I really hope that if he wins Romney honestly will reduce government spending assisting startup tech companies and put it into basic research. At the end of the day, private backing for a good startup can usually be found eventually. If your idea is actually going to do something to make our country better or stronger or help our people, it's probably going to be profitable, and you can usually find wealthy people or corporations willing to invest in profitable ideas. Nobody wants to fund basic research because it's too far away from the development stages. Research costs a lot - many science labs at major research universities burn through several million dollars a year, and big facilities at national labs that facilitate groundbreaking discoveries can cost many billions per year to maintain and operate. That money is never going to be made up from the private sector if it's cut, but the discoveries at facilities like these can help provide the background discoveries to drive the technological innovations of the future and make America and the world better.