And I’m sure you missed where I criticized Palin for using the ABO line. It’s wrong and she’s wrong.
I’m not saying you have to agree with Sarah about everything, I’m saying that I agree with her on this point. But she seemed to be saying that was a general election strategy, and that’s how I feel as well. In the primary, we don’t work for “anybody but Obama”, we work to get a good conservative and then build them up so that they have the support needed to beat Obama.
The fear I have is if we tear down the possible acceptable conservative candidates so much in the primary, we either leave the winner with so many negatives among the republican base (because of the negative attacks), and maybe also sour independents to our candidate; or worse, that we split the conservative vote and Romney gets in like McCain did in 2008.
The best way to make sure we don’t have to choose between Romney and Obama is to make sure that one of the more conservative candidates wins the nomination.