I agree with you that getting a more conservative House and Senate are the most important goals. I also agree that keeping the transnationalist-progressive wing from hijacking the party agenda for the next 4-8 years by stealing the nomination is actually more important in the overall scheme of things than winning the D/R intramural contest for the presidency.
That leaves Gingrich, Romney, Huntsman, and Perry completely out of the question for me. They’re also wildly unpopular among younger GOP members. Luckily the whole neocon/tranny-prog phenomenon seems to be a generational thing and as the boomers age out of the voting population, they’ll have a diminishing influence on GOP politics. The only question is whether we can hold fort long enough to allow that to happen, or whether they’ve already done too much damage to the party and the country to be repaired. The fact that both Bachmann and Cain were within striking distance of the nomination before being destroyed by the MSM and their useful idiot concern trolls, gives me reason for cautious optimism going forward.
If we can’t get a nationalist conservative nominated this time around, I’ll also be registering some kind of protest vote. If the GOP wants a future, it needs to start attracting new converts. Paul’s no conservative, but at the end of the day he is a far better ambassador for the GOP than someone like Gingrich.
Good post.