We’ve played the ‘nominate the moderate, the conservative can’t win’ game before. Remember Dole? McCain? It’s clear enough how well those two did.
It doesn’t much matter if the GOP nominates someone Freepers might consider a moderate, the MSM and the Left will consider them a Neanderthal club wielding conservative and they will be spared no grief. Just look at how McCain, the former ‘press darling of the GOP’ got tossed into the wood chipper as soon as he ran for president.
No matter who runs for the GOP, they will be ascribed to be a frothing at the mouth right winger. Thus, you might as well actually pick an actual conservative.
Boy, am I sick of this crap. How was Dole a “moderate”? He was a war hero, a modest man and an extraordinary Reagan-like statesman. He wasn’t a mouth-breathing, chest-thumping fool, but he would have been a great president. So show me where he was a moderate.