I see that too, but we have to be careful ourselves as well. Regarding the primary (and I know you to be an Hunterite) the candidate the SoCons prefer (Huckabee) is equally as unpalatable as the others... So there is fault enough to go around.
***None of the current candidates can claim to embrace all 3 forms, and all of them are unable to satisfy some particular branch of the three. That’s why the coalition is breaking apart.
DEFCON
MCCAIN=Only positive attribute is strong defense, military experience
FICON
ROMNEY=Only positive attribute is management of economy
SOCON
HUCKABEE= Only positive attribute is strong Cristian credentials.
Split right down factional lines. The product of "electability" overriding principle.
What do you think of Agent Hank’s question:
A political party should represent a set of ideals. True enough everyone won’t agree at all times. But if my party’s standard bearer holds beliefs that are utterly antithetical to those which attracted me to the party in the first place, why should I support it? To fly the club colors?
Quite obviously, one should not support that which represents one's antithesis. But in the midst of all the talk of new parties and etc, I will make a prediction that will be stunning to some:
Any Conservative party that attempts to upend the Republicans will surely fail unless it is able to serve all three conservative factions in the same fashion as Reagan's Coalition. The three "kinds" are tied at the hip, because all else is certainly against us.
Ronald Reagan would not have been elected dogcatcher with the votes of Republicans.
NOT ONLY did Reagan unify the party, he grew his movement by leaps and bounds until it included millions of independents and Democrats.
A lot of those here are in a race to see how small they can make their movement. Huge segments of the Reagan coalition have been driven away, or scared away.
The loathing that Reagan Democrats, in particular, have for "Christian" voters is unbelievable, if you have never seen it.
Reagan was not ONLY about conservatism, and no movement which will succeed in duplicating his majorities will ever work without his skill at bringing over voters from the other side.