I wish that were true, but who does anyone think the big three leftist states of California, New York and Illinois will vote for in the Republican primaries? Blue states also participate.
The GOPe is counting on the same vote splitting among numerous more conservative candidates that allowed Dole, McCain and Romney to win in prior years, And we all know that's why Jebbie acted so soon to squeeze Romney out of the big donor money, and out of any major vote splitting among the Rinos.
Conservatives better decide on a candidate very soon in the primary season.
It’s not the nature of conservatives to avoid letting competition take its course. More than once there have been candidates I thought excellent men to lead this country but once they waded into the sleaze and backstabbing were not up to it.
If you can’t cut throats and kick ‘nads in the primary and general, you don’t have what it takes to play with Putin, Xi Jinping or even the crazy asshats in N.Korea and the Middle East. Look at the people we’ve had who really had/have good ideas but either haven’t run or ran and quit- Cain, Thompson, Keyes.....