You’re making way too much sense not to get mercilessly flamed for posting that here. That kind of common-sense thinking can be very unwelcome.
Yes, instead of conservatives adapting, overcoming, becoming better candidates/politicians, honing our message, etc, half the people here seem to want to spend all their time crying and whining about the "establishment". If we nominate good conservative candidates they CAN and WILL overcome entrenched interests and the mainstream media - but they need to be GOOD candidates that are electable in their district, state, etc. People like EW Jackson were lost causes the very second they got the nomination. So what was the point of that?