Hillary Clinton has a strong chance of winning because she's the perfect candidate in the eyes of these people -- a big-government globalist who can easily be bought.
Truth. It is almost comical to see Kristol and his ilk weep about the need for a "conservative" when they whored for Romney not four years ago.
None of these elites give a damn about abortion, or limited government, or personal freedoms. None of them. That's fodder for the masses so we think we're "fighting" for something noble.