I see things a bit differently. Hillary ( or whomever has the D next to their name) has a clear path to the oval office unless there is a real conservative in the race. Have the last two presidential elections really taught us nothing?
“Have the last two presidential elections really taught us nothing?”
They have. Because of crossover voting by liberals and the MSM brainwashing the uninformed voter, we will almost certainly never have another conservative candidate. I suspect the best we can do is have an American socialist-lite, like GWB. But I’ll take one of those over what we have now anytime. (Do you really want our nuclear deterrent decreased? Do you really want hundreds of thousands or millions of illegals gaining instant citizenship and access to welfare?)
If we can start another party and get enough Congressmen to agree to cross-over if it wins, then and only then can we have another Reagan.
We also need to stop running the walking dead, like McCain and Dole.
In addition, candidates who poll really poorly and have no chance need to resign early in the primaries. (Yeah, I know, never happen.) As my dad pointed out, when McCain was running, I wasted my primary vote on a wonderful conservative who essentially took 5% of the vote from a more viable but further to the left candidate, who still might have been acceptable.
There’s a bit of gamesmanship and we’re getting beaten consistently because there is nobody like a conservative George Soros, funding the conservative side of the games. If we had that kind of money backing all kinds of conservative grass roots efforts like the liberals do, then we could have another Reagan, or a Palin.