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I’m from Ohio. You are from Montana. If Ohio or Montana aren’t able to primary weak representatives and remove them, then how do we get what we want out of a legislature that cycle. In our own area, we have failed to support the conservative cause.

A legislature is different. You bring up Romney, but he was running for executive, not legislature.

If we can’t in Ohio or Montana give direct aid to Cruz, then we’ve got to give him some kind of aid. So, we fail at the primary. What’s the next best step to help Cruz get some good things done?

A legislative strategy is different AFTER we fail at the primary strategy.

I have absolutely zero ill will for anyone who voted 3rd party against Romney or didn’t vote for president at all because of Romney. He was a wasteland, and he wasn’t worthy of our votes in the final analysis because he ran a stupid campaign.

Personally, I have no ill will toward anyone over how they use their vote. It’s their vote. They can use it however they want. I can question their strategy, though. I question those who use the same strategy with the legislative as they do with the executive. A legislative half-victory can block a bad executive from doing a lot of damage.

I use a probably weak calculus, but it is all I have : I am convinced that Democrats will NEVER listen to my conservative demands/requests upon the legislature, because Democrats not only do not hear the still small voice of God, they would spit in His face if He spoke to them; I can only hope and pray that republicants might apply conservative values at some point since many of them can be touched by God's still small voice.

Perfection is the enemy of 'coalition' and to apply perfection requirements to legislatures is to give up the field to the enemy of the good.

A legislative half-victory can block a bad executive from doing a lot of damage.

We definitely agree on that point, dear brother in Christ!

On the other hand, your basic presupposition seems to be that Romney would have been a "bad executive" — which is something his professional biography would tend to refute. Plus no POTUS can "rule alone"; e.g., by executive orders. A power-hungry narcissist like Obama might not agree with that statement; but Romney is neither power hungry nor narcissist. Plus I strongly doubt he would have taken a wrecking ball to the Constitution....

A legislature is different. You bring up Romney, but he was running for executive, not legislature.

I brought up Romney as a quintessential example - There is not a whit of principle in the man. And no, legislature is no different at all.

If we can’t in Ohio or Montana give direct aid to Cruz, then we’ve got to give him some kind of aid. So, we fail at the primary. What’s the next best step to help Cruz get some good things done?

Certainly that would not be to vote men of questionable mettle into his party. No matter what, your vote is your endorsement. You get more of what you vote for. If you vote liberals into the Republican party, you empower the liberals, not the Republicans. Soon enough you will be where we are now, with very little difference between the two.