"If you want this conservative to vote with you, stop trying to entice me with non-conservatives. Stop trying to feed bacon to your horse. One of the numbing numbers to come out of this fiasco is the fact that if Romney had simply gotten the same number of votes that McCain did, Romney would have won. This deflation happened without a robust third party candidate siphoning off a large number of votes. The results of this election should not cause us to think we need to "move to the center." Two establishment Republican candidates in a row have gone down, and this second time the centrist lost to a failed presidency. I mean, think about it."
-Doug Wilson
pretty well covers the candidate problem ~ but we also need to replenish the stock of voters available to vote Republican! The GOP-e thinks that job should be done by someone else someday, but not them. They simply want to control the candidate selection process.