[TomGuy]

McCain got to be the nominee because of OPEN PRIMARIES where DEMOCRATS can PICK OUR NOMINEE

Independents and cross-overs were only half the story.

The other half was too many 'conservative' candidates, causing the votes to be splintered. Then, Romney and Huckabee hanging on long enough to cause the other 'conservatives' to drop out.

In 2012, the 'conservatives' need to select one solid representative candidate (as early as 2010) and groom that person. Otherwise, the 'conservatives' will continue to be spintered, and that will hand the nomination to the RNC's middle-road, big business, business-as-usual candidate.

[x_plus_one]

Huckabee is the reason we lost the election. He ruined Romney. Romney was beating McCain. Huckabee is too extreme in his religious views to be any more than the gov of arkansas.

The anti-mormon evangelicals are part of the cause of the problem. No one calls them out on this either.

[E. Cartman]

McCain got to be the nominee because of OPEN PRIMARIES where DEMOCRATS can PICK OUR NOMINEE

Which is precisely how the MSM, democrats and the other members of the left are going to foist Huckabubba on us in 2012.

Instead of calling themselves the GOP, the Pubbies should call themselves "The Patsy Party", 'cuz they were set up real bad this time around.