It's really not that simple. I was a delegate to one of the conventions. There were more delegates at the convention than any of the older participants recall ever seeing at one of these caucuses. Some guessed the number was triple the typical number of delegates. The reason for the increased attendance was at first assumed to be due to the state's change in election rules and the increased concern about this election. While those were factors, it also soon became obvious that a great percentage of the Romney delegates were in fact people who admitted to having been former Democrats in previous years and Obama in the last election. In other words, the Democrats rigged the election by sending their followers to vote as Republicans in the Republican primaries for the purpose of selecting Romney as the Republican candidate.
Look, the fact remains, WhiskeyX, that it would have been quite simple for us to have remain united.
Here’s how: we take the results of the FIRST BIG CONSERVATIVE VOTE, and HONOR THAT RESULT.
UNITE WITH THAT RESULT.
(Sorry for the all-caps but I feel very strongly about this, and feel that it’s so obvious that it shouldn’t even have to be said, and also feel that we conservatives missed this simple and obvious truth.)
You take the results of South Carolina and you UNITE WITH THEM.
YOU DON’T FLUSH THE FIRST BIG CONSERVATIVE VOTE DOWN THE TOILET, the way we did in Florida.
We all, all, each and every one of us, should have said FU RICK SANTORUM, GO AWAY, WE ARE NOT GOING TO DIVIDE OUR VOTE and stuck with the winner of South Carolina through the rest of the process.
And you know what, Gingrich would EASILY be our candidate right now, not Romney.
But you know what? I bet a lot of “conservatives” would be waaaaaamublancing about THAT right now, too.
And THAT, my good friend, is the REAL problem... not the moderates and liberals in our midst.
The problem isn’t in our liberals, it’s in our selves.
It's really not that simple. I was a delegate to one of the conventions. There were more delegates at the convention than any of the older participants recall ever seeing at one of these caucuses. Some guessed the number was triple the typical number of delegates. The reason for the increased attendance was at first assumed to be due to the state's change in election rules and the increased concern about this election. While those were factors, it also soon became obvious that a great percentage of the Romney delegates were in fact people who admitted to having been former Democrats in previous years and Obama in the last election. In other words, the Democrats rigged the election by sending their followers to vote as Republicans in the Republican primaries for the purpose of selecting Romney as the Republican candidate. You can add this to the evidence mentioned in my last post about this whole thing being machined and orchestrated.
We're morons willing to commit seppuku to buy into the 'only choice' served to us by our enemies. It's time to think like our patriarch's did and recognize that prostrating ourselves before parliament and the king and playing by their imposed rules is over.