That's a very neat package you've presented, but what about the actual and demonstrable fact that there was little to bolster her allegedly conservative principles?
Conservatives deserve a better nominee on that basis alone. Period.
There was very little to demonstrate that she didn't have them, either, especially since she never got a chance to speak.
BTW, politics is the "art of the possible," and one thing a candidate has to be able to do is to get confirmed, something that the Dems are never going to let happen in the case of somebody with a huge conservative paper trail. I don't think any of the pundits' favored candidates will be the next one up.