[teledude]

This is why we as conservatives need to stop splitting our votes NOW! We need to come together behind the one conservative who has the best chance of winning.

I'm sure the Duncans and Tancredos et. al. are decent people...but they have shown no ability to gain broad support. If we divide the conservative vote between four or five candidates, Rudy will win the nomination with 25 or 30%.

Then the "principled conservatives will stay home or vote third party, and we will be stuck with Hillary (my greatest fear.)

The time to be pragmatic is now, while we can influence who our choices are going to be.

[Will88]

“I’m sure the Duncans and Tancredos et. al. are decent people...but they have shown no ability to gain broad support. If we divide the conservative vote between four or five candidates, Rudy will win the nomination with 25 or 30%.”

Not an expert on all the rules related to state primaries and the Republican Convention, but it seems we could have a convention where no candidate arrives with the nomination won, and for the first time in years, the convention delegates might actually pick the nominee.

Doesn’t a candidate have to have a majority of the delegates to the convention to win the nomination?