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You do the best you can and fight for another day. But even with all the trash talking on these threads here at FR (and yes, I have been a member of FR for many years), any Republican is better than Clinton or Obama. Therefore you keep fighting for the best candidate left in the race in your mind, even if it is the best of what is left, and you vote for whomever is the nominee in the general election.

If we had a very conservative nominee win, what would we have told all the GOP moderates?

Conservatives must work harder to get one of our own to win next time. But you cannot give up just because the guy nominated is not conservative enough for you.

Any of the Repubs left will support the troops better (and I will be back in Iraq later this year), all will have more conservative social policy to some degree than the Dems, all will appoint more conservative judges, and all are at least marginally better on immigration. All miss out on one of the above at lease, but I will take a partial win in politics over a total loss any day--especially on the judge front. Anyway—take what you can get and get on with your own life—if we are truly conservative we believe we control our own destiny more than politicians control us anyway. Fight locally.

One man’s opinion anyway.