Those who wanted better should have coalesced around a single ‘acceptable’ candidate rather than acting like purists and insisting that their guy/gal was the only possible true believer. Romney may well have won by attrtion but conservatives seem hell bent on shooting their wounded
We had 10 generally well known candidates, although I provided a full list of 14 the other day. There were only 3 lifelong Republican Conservatives in the list.
The majority of the other candidates were clearly RINOS ~ no matter how you define that term. I've gone over their qualifications several times.
Their purpose was simply to distract primary voters from the purpose of narrowing the race down to qualified Conservative candidates.