[Kevmo]

Good post. Well written.

My position was anti Rudy McRomney from the start.
***Mine also. One of my taglines was from Antoninus — The first task of Huntercles: Defeat the 3 headed RINO Cerebrus or something like that.

[TAdams8591]

Did you really think you were going to defeat them by supporting Duncan Hunter? And did you really think Hunter was going to defeat Hillary or Obama? Antoninus' strategy was critically flawed, because he didn't consider who could defeat the greater enemy, the democrats.

I looked for a candidate running on a Reagan pro-life conservative platform who could defeat Rudy and win in the general. That candidate was Mitt Romney. Because he sought and received conservative support, Romney would have had to uphold the conservative principles he ran on, or risk losing conservative support and a second term.

Now we have a candidate, who has many times over stabbed us in the back, and who will win the nomination without us, though he will have to court us to win the general. But McCain won't be nearly as beholding to conservatives as Mitt, additionally because his health might not permit a second term. Furthermore, his candidacy is far more risky than Mitt's because he will not have a prayer if the democratic nominee is Obama, and he will have a harder time defeating Hillary than Mitt.

I'm proud of my choice. It was the right one, and in the end, most conservatives followed. But unfortunately it was too late.