“Exactly. That’s where we win or lose the general election - in the primaries. That’s our ONE chance to get the true conservative into any given race.”
One thing that killed us was the fact that we had 9,000 different people splitting the vote in that primary.
But what if we'd all voted for the single most conservative candidate, regardless of "electability" or any other silliness? Let's face it, had we done that, Huckabee and McCain would have been out by the second primary. Guliani and Romney wouldn't have been far behind. We would have been left with guys like Duncan Hunter and potentially Fred Thompson. If nothing else, no one can argue their conservative credentials.