Although I agree with the rest of your post regarding getting a conservative elected in the primaries, this is still not true. After getting Obama twice by not voting for the GOPe candidate, conservatives should have learned their lesson and regardless of who the republican candidate is, every conservative needs to get behind whoever wins the nomination, even if they are not the second coming of Ronald Reagan.
As long as the GOPe thinks conservatives will do that, there will never be another conservative candidate again.
How many more illegal aliens, EPA power grabs, nationalized education programs and trillion dollar spending sprees do you think our nation can survive?
You know, I think you have it exactly backwards.
If the Republicans lost to Obama twice because conservatives stayed home, then isn't it the GOPe who failed to learn the lesson -- which is that the GOP can't win by ignoring/attacking its conservative base and running wishy-washy moderate losers?
The pressure shouldn't be on conservatives to show up and vote, it should be on the Uniparty to quit running liberal losers who neither understand nor are able to articulate and push for conservative principles.
This is why we cannot get traction. Too many vote party not person. You are the problem, not the solution.
“every conservative needs to get behind whoever wins the nomination, even if they are not the second coming of Ronald Reagan.”
ABSOLUTELY NOT! As a conservative, I will vote for conservatives! If there is not a conservative on the ballot with a decent chance of winning, I will vote AGAINST the faux conservative candidate by voting for the openly liberal candidate.
The phony conservative does NOTHING to build the conservative movement - quite the opposite - Bush (both of them) did much damage to the conservative movement by foregoing conservative principles. The general public points to them now to say “Conservatives raise taxes, and conservatives spend too much”.
A true liberal in office helps the conservative movement FAR more than a phony conservative. Our country cannot be saved by phony conservatism.
Just ... wow. Somebody needs to buy a clue.
There are no "lessons" to be learned. There are only votes FOR directions to go. Most people get that. It's why Romney lost. You can go on taking the sucker's bet of being manipulated into voting for a functional leftist in order to vote "against" Democrats. That's a losers' game.
Most folks know a sucker's bet when they see one.