“There was no Conservative vote split in ‘08, since there was no Conservative candidate amongst the so-called leaders. They were all RINOs: Huckster, Slick Willard, Captain Strawberries.”
Really?
“When Fred dropped out”
So there WAS a conservative candidate? I also liked Hunter a lot and that guy from Virginia wasn’t half-bad. We let the fringe media pick who our candidate would be. If we make the same mistake next time, we’ll have Mitt Romney as a candidate.
There was no serious Conservative after the departure of Fred. Hunter was fine, but he was not first-tier and would never get the support required to win. I said he was more Cabinet Secretary material, such as Defense. Which guy from Virginia are you talking about ? George Allen (my early pick for President) never got in.
But I had no say in the matter, by the time the primary got to TN, there was no one to vote for. The first time since I was eligible to vote I didn’t cast a vote in the GOP Presidential primary (and I certainly wasn’t going to vote in the rodent one). Had McCain not chosen Palin as his running mate (indeed, had he chosen Slick Willard or Huckster), I’d have not even bothered to cast a vote in the general.