It appears to me that we have too many Conservatives in the Republican Primaries; they split the Conservative vote into several pieces, and leave the nomination to the rino. We need to have a “Conservative Only” Primary, and select one “1” Conservative to run in the Republican Primary. Doing that, we don’t water down the Conservative vote, and let the rino slip in.....
In 2008, we had Fred Thompson....he got little to no support from the “party”...In 2012 we had Herman Cain...He got little to no support from the “party”...
Both were very conservative...both had extremely goos common sense...The “elites” did not want them because they were afraid it would upset the “status quo” the “elites” enjoy in Soddom-on-the-Potomac.....
I agree, and have suggested similar in the past.
Essentially, a "TEA party primary", or something similar as the TEA party isn't strictly a GOP thing. The idea would be to accumulate enough of an infrastructure of funding and organizational support, that the prize for winning would be worth the cost -- all participants must pledge to support the winner of this "primary".
The devil is in the details, of course. Not just in getting the various conservative groups to join forces and pool resources, a monumental task in and of itself, but also in determining how such a pre-primary would work to represent the conservative voters despite being impractical to have a nationwide vote and how to prevent a "takeover" by a numerically small, but very organized fringe group.