With this poll, if Romney wins S. Carolina, its all over. We can’t keep burying our head in the sands until we end up with a circular firing squad. Sadly, our conservative friends from Bachmann to Perry siphoned off enough conservative votes to propel Romney into first place. Even Newt should have dropped out (far too much Freddie Mac etc baggage, un-telegenic, losing the female votes in spades, and is so yesterday) as should have Cain if he knew that his past would haunt him. Our talk radio conservatives sat on the fence and yes Sarah Palin stringed us around for so long that other true and tested conservatives stayed out of the race. Deny all you want, this is now the reality.
Your argument is illogical. First you state that the problem was that we had too many conservatives in the race (splitting the non-Romney mote), then you go on to say that Sarah Palin prevented additional conservatives from getting into the race. So we would be better off with even more conservatives in the race how?
Also, Sarah Palin didn't string anybody along. It was her supporters that were projecting and raising expectations that she would eventually get into the race. I remember a few months ago people on the Internet getting all excited over a rumor that she was going to announce on some obscure morning-zoo radio show up in Alaska. The rampant speculation was crazy and out of control. But none of it was Sarah's doing.
We had some real conservatives in the race. Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Herman Cain to name a few. I guess none of them was perfect enough for us so here we are faced with yet another milquetoast RINO as a result.
True. Conservatives have no one else to blame but ourselves. We couldn’t agree on the right person to lead and we couldn’t convince the best people to even run.
We can hate Mitt all we want, but he played his cards well and kept the conservatives split to get what he wanted. Just as we don’t want Ron Paul to go 3rd party I won’t vote 3rd party either. I’ll be stuck with our nominee—the lessor of 2 evils truly does apply this election.
Difference this time is we voted for Bush thinking he was a conservative, so he was able to lead the congress to the left. We know Mitt is no conservative so we will need to push him to the right and encourage our Tea Party congress to keep him to the right.