If the CINO GOP-e has their way -- i.e., if conservatives don't do everything humanly possible at the state level, between now and then, to close every last state primary to the GOP-e's beloved, sabotaging "moderates" and other assorted liberals -- then some combination of any/all of the following, guaranteed:
Jeb Bush
Chris Christie
Scott Brown (provided he wins re-election this year, himself)
Jon Huntsman
Lisa Murkowski
Bet the rent on it. They are easily as stupidly, suicidally self-destructive as all of that.
Who is going to be the candidate in 2016 or 2020 (depending if Romney wins). Well let’s see. Nobody on Free Republic liked Romney at all until he became the Savior to fickle Romney people. So it would not surprise me if the Republican party nominates Mayor Bloomberg as our next nominee and watch the FREEPERS get all supportive of him like they did Romney who “supposedly” they couldn’t stand just a short few months ago. Some have ZERO principles at all.
It’s conservatives who keep committing suicide by failing to coalesce behind one candidate. Unless, as I suspect, there’s no such thing as ‘conservative’ as a block, neither is ‘RINO’ block. The winner just smarter, more resourceful, and know how to build a winning coalition.