1) Purist conservatives stand in moral judgment of realist conservatives
2) Purist conservatives withhold their vote or threaten to do so if a realist or center-right candidate is nominated
3) Purist conservatives deny reality and refuse to team with realists who are willing to make incremental progress rather than lose entirely
3) Purist conservatives engage in monkey-screeching disdain and mocking of any candidate or their supporters who attempt to innovate, break the mold, come from a different angle towards the same ultimate goal, or speak a different lingo than themselves
4) Purist conservative's underlying political impulse is theocratic fascism; yet they accuse other political factions of fascism
5) Purist conservatives are every bit as humorless and narcissistic as purist progressives
6) Purist conservatives, if they can't win because their sour judgmental elitism has turned the majority off, don't want anyone else to win, either. Then they blame the realists for the punishments dished out by the progressives that the Purists helped elect, even though the realists actually want to win, but can't get the Purists to accept objective reality long enough to soil themselves by voting for an imperfect human being with realistic conservative goals.
That’s an amusing explanation. Why amusing? Because you can use every point to argue that Rubio is the best choice.
Process:
Purists: Rubio is pro-amnesty!
Realists: Yes but on every other issue he votes with us and he says he will enforce current laws.
Purists: But he voted for amnesty on Gang of 8!
Realists: He beats Clinton and Sanders in head to heads, has a strong Latino following, and can deliver Florida. He has all the demographic boxes checked.
Purists: But he BETRAYED us on amnesty.
Realists: Pure conservatives can’t win elections. Stop being a one issue voter. This election is about taking our country back and to do that we have to WIN.