[nopardons]

Would you like that hat plain, or with a sauce?

[Jim Robinson]

I won't be needing the sauce. We're either a conservative party or we're not. If we are a conservative party, then we will end up with a conservative candidate who will be running a conservative platform containing all of the critical conservative planks.

If we are not a conservative party, then our candidate will not be a conservative and his platform will be missing (or misrepresenting) critical conservative planks. It's really very elementary, m'dear.