[lormand]

"Yet the fact is, he won the primaries. You have to wonder, what the heck were people thinking???"

A significant amount of them were libs and party interlopers.

[LS]

Nah, you know better. Some---under 10%. But that doesn't explain his "support" in the primaries, and the hatred of Romney, the utter inability of Thompson to do anything, and the lukewarm popularity of Huckabee.

The fact that conservatives are afraid to acknowledge is that a lot of the "base," or the primary voters, aren't nearly as conservative as we'd like.

OR . . . they're malleable, but need a national conservative message/leader to energize them. But while I think conservatism is alive and well, I also am disturbed by the very fact that McCain had little competition in most states, and that the so-called "conservatives" like Hunter, Brownback, and Thompson, got KILLED.