It would be nice if in 2012, conservatives would pick a person to support who actually wants to run for the office and will seriously pursue it, so we can all support the same person and maybe get them through the primaries.
Amen to that. The problem is finding a candidate who will commit to run this early. As soon as anyone does of course they come under a constant barrage of attacks. Since Reagan is our success model for all things, he had the advantage of having run multiple times so he'd already taken the barrage. By his third? run it was old news when libs once again said he was old, crazy and likely to blow up the world. Plus, after the country veered so far to the left under Carter & the Dems the mushy middle was less afraid to veer further right with a guy who was positive and unapologetic about America. I'm wondering how many states in the late 70s had "open-primaries" back then? That's a problem I think in getting more conservatives through the primaries during these times.