"The only reason they aren't electable is because nervous conservatives tell themselves that they can't win. I'm not voting for a big government republican ever again. I'd rather have a democrat in the white house with a GOP congress that has some balls than what we have now, a President and Congress who sell themselves out to democrats and end up getting bashed by democrats afterwards."
AMEN TO THAT BUMP!
What makes the far right actually believes they could win a majority of all voters in a general election when they cannot even win a majority of Republicans in a primary election. In Pennsylvania a Conservative Toomey could not get a majority of Republicans to nominate him. When the choice was your type of conservative against a very liberal Arlen Specter, the voters chose the liberal. However in that primary far right Conservatives did manage to let every PA. voter know how Conservative Senator Santorum was. As a result it looks like Santorum is going down in defeat this year. The Toomey supporters at every opportunity screamed... Toomey can win.. Look at Santorum. He is as conservative as Toomey and Santorum wins... Now it looks like Santorum can't win.
Conservatives , convinced they have majority support, have managed to re-elect Specter. In that effort they did what it takes to defeat Santorum.
if conservatives ever figure out they have to convince a lot more voters before they try running candidates they might someday have a chance at victory. But like all perennial losers, they rationalize their defeats. Their defeats are always someone else's fault.
Right wing conservatives need to grow up and take responsibility for their own failures.. If they ever do, they might be a factor.
I am always amused when far right Conservatives tell Republicans they are going to take their vote and go home. They always think the Republicans will come beging on bended knee. That never happens. The Republicans, of course, do the logical thing. The Republican candidate reasons he can never count on the far right. So to get to a majority the Republican Candidate move a bit more to the left to get a dependable majority. Right Wingers never ever figure that out.