[so_real]

In the entire history of the United States, only one elected president failed to receive the nomination of his party for re-election in the following term. That was Franklin Pierce in 1857. Your plan to be better prepared in 2016 already has a success probability approaching zero with regard to the POTUS. Try we will, I grant you. But we'll have even less probability of success in four years than we have today. After eight years of GOPe control, 'conservatism' will no longer mean what it means today. We will have lost more than you expect. Only by keeping a tagged target on the field of battle before us will the GOPe decide "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and work with us. Once the GOPe is empowered, they will turn (left) against us. Count on it; history repeats itself.

[PoliticalArsonist]

So your plan is . . . ?

It seems to be to vote for . . . who, exactly?

What chance does that person have of winning? Make your case, please, and I will be on board.

Will we have a chance to do anything at all in 2016 if Obama wins again in November?

Please, do not confuse the GOP with conservatism. It is not the same. The Tea Party came about to fight the GOP elite as much as it did to fight the Dems. What Romney does or does not do will have nothing to do with conservatism. The conservative movement will not die because of him. If anything, it will be reenergized as a new separate party from the GOP.