Then the problem isn't Hoffman or the conservatives but the official candidate. The GOP simply picked a vain, unreasonable person. They blew it.
But the GOP’s stuck with her now.
The ideal would be for her to come in 3rd, but I don't think that's gonna happen.
This Frum article is just a foretaste of what is to come if (as I suspect) the Democrat wins and Hoffman comes in 3rd.