Notice in our Republican primary, the candidates in the race who actually produced, worked hard and reached a successful goals in their duties, got results, were criticized for not meeting our ever-growing long list of litmus tests.
Being accomplished men no longer matters in our Party.
Yeah, no joke. I never thought I'd see the day when I wished Romney was still in it to win it.
Of course, we had a solidly conservative guy running (Thompson), but a whole lotta FReepers couldn't rally to the cause, and decided they'd have more fun hating on him because he didn't fit the suit exactly right one or two of their pet issues which aren't really even that important overall and in the long term.
What movement conservatives need to do is get together, provide the leadership, and start organising at a grassroots level (I mean, across the board, not like the one-issue special interest groups). We need to decide on a baseline of conservative ideas that we all support, and go from there, and above all, we need to grow up and be mature enough to not run off squealing and taking our ball because some candidate doesn't agree with us fully and completely on one issue.