The main thing is winning the general election.....
Winning for winning's sake is nothing. The main thing is to further the conservative cause...
...without redefining conservatism.
Well, if our candidate doesn’t win, the only thing that is “furthered” is this country goes further into oblivion...
You have to win first before you can “further” anything.....
Conservatism as we know it is pretty much dead. It doesn’t have the ability it once did to unify folks, and there is a large and growing contingent of folks who not only oppose it, they absolutely view it as evil. They are never, ever going to be convinced.
A lot of folks here tend to scoff at Bernie Sanders. As my sitehandle indicates, I know a thing or two about rats. I was one until about 2007. Here’s the thing: Bernie appeals greatly to the 47% or more that willard infamously identified. His supporters are passionate, smart, and relatively young. They will give 110% to elect their candidate. And he will most likely be the rat candidate.
While we sit here arguing about who is the most pure conservative candidate, the opposition is busy unifying their FSA. And each one of them has the same number of votes that we have: one. Assuming they don’t cheat. Which they likely will.