“It looks to me a lot like Mitt needs some time in the wilderness establishing his brand and becoming accepted as a true conservative by those of us whom he will have to inspire to work for and contribute to him.”
I agree with that 100%, ALL of our Candidates this time around DID NOT put in the work laying the foundations for their support amongst “us” the people who do the work.
Even the Conservative Candidates, Thompson, Hunter, did not spend time on the rubber chicken circuit, the Evangelical Meetings, the Policy conferences, or doing the interviews years before they asked for our support.
Reagan traveled that route, even to the point of campaigning for people in 1978, years before he asked for our votes and our support.
Newt spent years as well running against an encumbent Dhimmicrat, he would lose an election, and continue the campaign.
That has led to personal knowledge of a candidate being supplanted with what the MSM feeds “us” about a candidate.
This has led the McCain’s nomination, and we have wars ongoing, so to have a purely fundamental election which would exclude McCain, we are faced with the nearly seppuku inducing choice of losing the wars and retaining our identity, or winning the wars and being diminished as the animas behind the Republican Party.
I do not care for that scenario one darn bit, but let Hillary or Obama waltz into office and we will cut and run from Iraq, and that is even worse for me as a Proud American.