Wrong question. The real question is who is genuinely conservative and who is not. The rest will take care of itself.
Those only concerned with “electability” are demrats, uninformed, RINOs, doctrinaire libertarian or other pseudointellectuals.
The paramount issue for this pres. cycle is to return America to its roots—The Constitution, Bill of Rights, the family and capitalism. This is what a conservative believes. All the other issues are subsets of those overarching principles. If conservatives cannot sell conservatism to the majority of voters they deserve to lose.
That's a pure strawman. I know nobody whose "only concern" is electability. But I know an awful lot of people for whom electability is a very important concern, among others. The most perfect credentials in the world are of no value if you don't get elected.
If conservatives cannot sell conservatism to the majority of voters they deserve to lose.
I could care less whether we "deserve" to lose or not. I want to win. The Democrats have done what they have done to this country by running one way, and governing another. And it has worked for them. If having a conservative muzzle a few conservative opinions so as to appeal to more moderates gets him/her elected, and he/she then implements conservative policies, I'm completely fine with that.
Much better to win dirty than lose fair.