[SuziQ]

We can vote for whoever we want in a primary. Most of us prefer to vote for someone who has a chance of winning in the General Election against a tough Democrat opponent and almost the entire MSM.

If Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo or Ron Paul can't even convince the party faithful to support them, how are they ever supposed to win a General Election?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

It is not really that the party faithful don't like them. It is that the party faithful have turned over their own judgment to the hands of the party strategists. I think that is a big mistake. Just listen. See how many people say they like one of those other candidates but have chosen to support somebody else because of the "can win" campaign. Who do you think starts that campaign? It's the supporters of those candidates. They don't want the competition.

I won't vote for Rudy McRomney no matter how much verbal abuse the strategists throw at me. I am still listening to and researching Thompson.

[bushfamfan]

“If Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo or Ron Paul can’t even convince the party faithful to support them, how are they ever supposed to win a General Election?”

What is funny is that campaigns change everything. But the GOP is so preoccupied by the so-called ‘electable, known’ candidates that it equates that they are more well-known to the fact that makes it a sure thing in electability. It will come down to how the candidate campaigns and what they say, how they act and what they have done. I find it ironic that just about everyone who does learn of Duncan Hunter admits how presidential, well spoken and leaderlike he is and how they like him, BUT the GOP voters say he ‘can’t win’. Based on what?? He’s not as well known a name! It’s absurd but the path the GOP seems set on.