We had a full year of primary to pick a better candidate. But conservatives couldn’t get behind one conservative and support them. Instead, conservatives split their support among multiple candidates, with a good number trashing every conservative because they supported Palin, who wasn’t even running.
Then a lot of conservatives decided to support a guy who had never won anything, had no government executive experience, and who then quit the race over charges of harassment for which there was no concrete evidence.
And even when there were only two conservatives left, the conservatives couldn’t decide between them, visciously attacking each other and ensuring a Romney win.
One look at the 3rd-party candidates shows why it is a hopeless cause. The best-known of the bunch is Virgil Goode, who was a democrat for most of his life (but more conservative than half the republicans), who lost his own seat in congress, and had no executive experience at all. Along with no organization to speak of.
Of those 16 only 3 had been lifelong Conservative Republicans.
The other 13 were mostly former Democrats, current Libertarians, and in some cases, apparently CURRENT Democrats.
In short, Conservatives got behind only 3 Conservatives, and the GOP-e let a whole lot of ringers into the race just to make their boy, Mitt Romney, look good!
If that hadn't have happened Romney would have been coming in as FOURTH in all those races ~ but with even lower numbers ~ down toward the same ones he got in the 2008 primaries.
The lesson is we must DISCIPLINE the RNC chairman. Right after dumping Romney, we got to dump Priebus!
The gop is responsible for selecting it candidates. Thanks to willards minions in VA, we had 2 choices: willard and Ron Paul.
Thanks for the extensive menu choices, guys.
The gop dug this hole. It can lie in it with my regards.
It does puzzle me why we don’t have better real conservative choices.