Well here's a flash for you. These same Principled Conservative of which you speak are the same Principled Conservatives that did exactly the same thing in '08 and gave the rest of us, unprincipled though we are, the reign of 0 the first.
Are you familiar with Einstein's definition of insanity?
You got any facts to back up that claim? From what I recall, it was not the most Conservative states that flipped to Obama, it was the most moderate ones!