[BibChr]

I disagree in principle. They were trying to do what we all knew had to be done: UNITE THE MOVEMENT.

Where it went wrong is that A said "Unite around Hunter!," B said "Unite around Thompson!," and HH said "Unite around Romney!"

We saw the need to unite. We just couldn't do it.

[FR Class of 1998]

Hard to unite oil and water. The multicultural globalists who run the party have as their priority policies that are necessarily anathema to most of the base.

The most powerful elected official who really represents the base is Tom McClintock of California - and the ferocity with which the REPUBLICAN powers that be intervened to ensure that he would not be Governor there gives perspective on what we are up against. Instead, they installed Schwarzenegger, a man married into the Kennedy family, as liberal as any Democrat.

The powers that be in the Republican party have failed us utterly, and consistently... the phrase “a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism” comes to mind. The magnitude of malfeasance necessary to turn the historic opportunity of 1994 into the unmitigated disaster of 2008 must not only be corrected, it must be avenged, and measures must be put in place to ensure that it can never happen again.

[Ol' Sparky]

The mistake of people that thought like you did is that it was possible for a majority of conservatives to unite around a man with a liberal record who has a history of lying and flip-flopping. As I stated, those attempting to do so picked the wrong candidate.

[Ol' Sparky]

If the conservative media hadn't tried to manipulate the race, I believe conservatives would have rallied around Huckabee and he'd be the nominee.