You have to pick from those who enter the race. Then you fight your opposition with the one you pick.
What are you gonna tell the RNC? Make somebody else run next time?
Pick some loser like Goode who didn’t have the guts to run in the primary?
The RNC allows Democrats to participate in it’s nomination process.
Now that doesn’t mean that the RNC has total control of this, but it doesn’t lift a finger to object.
It doesn’t support Conservatives. It does support moderates/liberals. Guys like Rove and others come out and carp at sound Conservatives, and support folks like Mitt. The RNC just smiles and acts like it’s an innocent bystander.
It’s my take that the RNC is every bit as much our enemy as the Democrat party is.