Are the Republicans so rigid and divided that they won't band together to bring about President Obama's defeat? That is the gist of Fred Barnes's "We Still Haven't Seen Romney's A-Game" (op-ed, April 12). He says that without conservative support Mr. Romney will lose, and "fear of Mr. Obama's [re-] election" is insufficient "to galvanize conservative support for him [Mr. Romney]."

Are we to believe that conservatives in this country are so narrow-minded that they will vote for President Obama rather than Mr. Romney, or not vote at all? What is wrong with this picture? I am ultraconservative and I like Fred Barnes, but I am beginning to wonder if Republicans and conservatives have enough brain power to figure out where this country is headed. Job one is to defeat Mr. Obama. There is no job two.

Jim Hockenberry

Lancaster, Pa.