Hey, folks, let's get a grip on reality here.
This is not 1896 when bigwigs from "this party" and "that other party" got together and then decided "Hey, let's nominate William McKinley" and "William Jennings Bryan is our man".
Today, "the GOP" does not decide who will be the Republican nominee for President. Average American voters do.
As Winston Churchill once observed, "The strongest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter."
The idealogical perfection in American politics that many of you demand is simply not possible in America or in any other nation where the "average voter" and not a political aristocracy has the final say in the political process.
So, the average American voters are not seeing things 100% our way in 2008.
Well, suck it up and, at least, try to put whichever VIABLE candidate will do the LEAST damage to America and to your children's future in the White House instead throwing away your vote and being far dumber than the average voter that Churchill was not overly impressed with.
The Republican party has only reason to exist as long as it remains a Conservative one. In states where the elites decided they didn’t want a Conservative GOP, the party is dead. It’s no surprise one of those elites happens to be Joe Isuzu Romney and he is going to work his magic nationwide what he did in MA in marching the party into Boston Harbor wearing cement galoshes. Ditto Huckster, who buried the AR GOP. There’s nothing to vote for if the nominee isn’t Fred or Hunter. The rodents are getting their liberal, I’m not helping our party get one, too.