[kevao]

The GOP-e was looking to encourage as many weak candidates from among conservative ranks as possible, so as to dilute the conservative vote as widely as possible.

I understand you desperately want to put the blame for Romney on the GOP-e (which clearly did pull out all the stops in support of Mittens), but unless you have evidence that the GOP-e *forced* all these conservative candidates to run against each other, then the fact remains: We conservatives did this to ourselves.

[Magic Fingers]

“I understand you desperately want to put the blame for Romney on the GOP-e (which clearly did pull out all the stops in support of Mittens), but unless you have evidence that the GOP-e *forced* all these conservative candidates to run against each other, then the fact remains: We conservatives did this to ourselves.”

Precisely. Refusal to accept reality.