“What are we going to do about it now???”
Most likely lose in a landslide reminiscent of Reagan/Mondale. Then...the party needs to do some major restructuring of it’s primary system before ‘12. Move strong conservative states to the front. Only these states can be winner-take-all. Iowa, New Hampshire, New York.....all to the back.. Give the more reliably conservative states more than half of the delegates needed to win. Close all the primaries, NO indies, NO dims.
Perhaps then that party would put forth their first conservative candidate since 1984.
..I agree the poor primary system is a large part of what got us here now. It does need to be changed ASAP so we don’t have this situation again. We need to learn from our mistakes of surely we will make them again.
We need primaries where everyone votes at the same time. It’s not fair to allow New York, and California to vote. The rest of us have been effectively shut out of the nomination process. I am in Wisconsin; we have no say.