We have had very few Conservative Presidential candidates, who ever got a major party nomination, over the past 100+ years. There was Calvin Coolidge & Ronald Reagan. Arguably, John W. Davis, who was the Democratic nominee in 1924 was also.
The point is not how truly Conservative a candidate is, but how effective a grassroots effort can be. We need to stop abdicating to the Leftist agitators, who have learned how to move the politicians to the Left. If we do not learn how to fight back on more & broader fronts, all that we believe in will be toast. The demagogue in the White House does not share any of our core values.
William Flax
Perhaps, if you had a better point, people wouldn't ignore it.
We are now in approximately our 100th year of drifting leftward in this nation, with only a couple small gyrations to the right - which most statisticians would simply classify as noise, and you are essentially asking that we keep trying the same methods "grass roots efforts" to move the elite monolith to the right.
When grass root efforts try to work with big money corruption, grass roots has consistently failed over the long term.
The political machine (singular not plural) which gives us a Romney and an Obama) must be defeated as it cannot be moved anywhere.