True, if you mean Republicans in the White House and Congress have recklessly fractured the trust of conservative voters. Conservative Americans are united on most issues, IMO.
We've been hearing about the Democrats' lack of a plan for a few years, yet they now have the majority in Congress, thanks, in a big way, to our President. Some true conservatives became fed up with this administration and either stayed home or voted for another party.
George Bush won't be running in '08. What we need is a small miracle.
If we can't trust the President and Congressmen we elected to represent us, we're in a bad way. I think the one conservative who might stand a real chance is Newt. But I've seen him viciously savaged in this forum for his personal life. Romney really isn't a conservative and as much as I like Duncan Hunter I don't feel he has the national stature to win. I don't consider McCain a conservative: he's done us a lot of serious damage and I doubt I could ever vote for him. He'd make a deal with the Devil if it advanced him personally.
We're as fractured as the Dems were back in the 1970s. I see huge fault lines along such issues as illegal immigration and 'family values' (can we support a divorced candidate or one who has a moderate position on abortion or homosexuality?) The country clubbers (the ones who finance most Pubbie Congressmen) pursue a one-world agenda and ship jobs and entire industries overseas while opening the borders to low-paid illegals and possibly terrorists. Meanwhile other conservatives are losing their jobs to India and China.
The only consolation is that it's still almost two years to the election and lots can happen in that time. But Hillary's got tons of money, a cutthroat campaign organiazation -- and possibly a bunch of FBI files.