The problem with this is even among conservatives, we do not agree on who are the real conservatives.
Of the last crop we were all over the place.
Some thought Huck to be the ultimate conservative and he did very well but there was no way I would support him in the caucus. I would have voted for him for president because he is a heck of a lot better than Obammy. As a matter of fact, I was forced to vote for McCain for the very same reason.
What about Romney? Some think he is very conservative, others think he's not.
I was a Thompson supporter but he didn't have enough support to get the nomination.
This is only to show that if we all continue with this attitude of demanding our own definition of perfection, we will lose forever.
These RATS are far too dangerous to let them have it by default.
You know what the biggest problem was in the ‘08 election cycle for President ? We didn’t have the best and brightest running. Fred Thompson was the only legitimate candidate with a claim to being Conservative. Duncan Hunter also had legitimacy, but he wasn’t going to win a general election. The other candidates were absolute losers and phonies. Huckster and Slick Willard, two failed left-wing Governors who murdered their state Republican parties. Giuliani, a law and order liberal. Ron Paul, a moonbat. McCain, well, you know what he is.
We should’ve had top calibre name Conservatives of accomplishment. Gov. Mark Sanford of SC, Haley Barbour, Jeff Sessions, Dave Heineman, Tom Coburn, Don Carcieri, Jim DeMint, etc. We didn’t have leaders running, we had people of enormous, indeed GINORMOUS egos that had next to zero credibility. With Thompson’s withdrawal, we were left with an awful (best of the worst) nominee with McCain, essentially precisely how John Kerry got the nod with the Dems in ‘04. But at least the difference between Kerry and McCain was that the former actually went after his opponent. McCain couldn’t stop attacking people who dared criticize the False Messiah on the GOP side. And when it appeared he might actually win right after he chose Gov. Palin, he sabotaged himself and the campaign so the media would be nice to him again. The whole thing was sick, dysfunctional and a NON-election. I didn’t even cast a vote in the primary because there was no one to vote for who was qualified and accomplished to be President. None.
I cast a vote for McCain in November (although my state was never in doubt, it went against the False Messiah as though he was George McGovern), but mainly because I was voting for Palin, who was more qualified to be President than any of the other 3 running for Pres and VP. Sadly, she was too green to have run this past year for the top job, but now is poised to be the singlemost qualified Conservative to run in 2012 now.