Not necessarily. TR came within a whisker of winning by calling his 3rd party (officially) “Progressive Republicans.”
I don’t really trust Romney or McCain to be conservatives, so I’m ambivalent about it.
It’s “Dole” all over again.
Better for conservatism to have to endure 4 years in the wilderness than let these phonies win.
No, TR got eighty-eight electoral votes and lot his home state of NY to Wilson.