[samtheman]

Look, the fact remains, WhiskeyX, that it would have been quite simple for us to have remain united.

Here’s how: we take the results of the FIRST BIG CONSERVATIVE VOTE, and HONOR THAT RESULT.

UNITE WITH THAT RESULT.

(Sorry for the all-caps but I feel very strongly about this, and feel that it’s so obvious that it shouldn’t even have to be said, and also feel that we conservatives missed this simple and obvious truth.)

You take the results of South Carolina and you UNITE WITH THEM.

YOU DON’T FLUSH THE FIRST BIG CONSERVATIVE VOTE DOWN THE TOILET, the way we did in Florida.

We all, all, each and every one of us, should have said FU RICK SANTORUM, GO AWAY, WE ARE NOT GOING TO DIVIDE OUR VOTE and stuck with the winner of South Carolina through the rest of the process.

And you know what, Gingrich would EASILY be our candidate right now, not Romney.

But you know what? I bet a lot of “conservatives” would be waaaaaamublancing about THAT right now, too.

And THAT, my good friend, is the REAL problem... not the moderates and liberals in our midst.

The problem isn’t in our liberals, it’s in our selves.

[WhiskeyX]

The voters in the straw poll of my precinct gave 15 votes to Gingrich, 9 votes to Romney, 5 votes to Santorum, and 4 votes to Paul. Yet the delegates sent on to the convention were four delegates for Romney, 1 delegate for Paul, and 1 delegate for Gingrich. Actually, there were no delegates sent for Gingrich, because I was relegated to being alternate delegate and later changed to a delegate by the time of the convention. I voted for Gingrich, but was overwhelmingly eliminated at the convention by the Romney deleagtes most of whom were RINOs and Democrats pretending to be Republicans. The voters of our precinct who voted overwhelmingly for Gingrich were systematically eliminated from representation going forward to the state convention. You cannot always balme the voters when their votes are not counted or represented by the subverted delegations.

[jocon307]

“The problem isn’t in our liberals, it’s in our selves.”

I agree with this. But I also do blame a few people who either didn’t run, ran badly, or just ran away. And those people are: Mike Pence, Rick Perry, and Tim Pawlenty.

[CharacterCounts]

The winner of South Carolina didn't even have enough money to run in Michigan. It was only a race between Romney and Santorum, and Romney spent boatloads of cash peddling lies, and half truths to the point he scared off many voters.

This nomination was bought and paid for by big money GOP insiders.