“The path to getting a general election candidate who can win is the only thing we care about.”
Worked great in ‘96, ‘08, and ‘12 didn’t it?
Actually though the problem we had in at least the last 2 was that we had one moderate and multiple conservatives. The establishment all voted for the moderate and we split our votes. We need to do it the other way around next time, even if we have to find and fund a second moderate to run.
This time all the potential conservative candidates should have a set of debates and then a Pre Primary to select one and only one Conservative to battle Crispy Cream Christie.
Last time our guys cut each other up, their donors like Adelson and other wasted money that a conservative could have used in the General, and we wound up splitting our vote instead of uniting to block Romney.
Romney couldn’t run against Obamacare because Obama said often it was Romney’s idea in the first place.