Who's "we?" If there's not a conservative on the ballot, me as a conservative won't have anything to fight for. I didn't get involved in the Hillary vs. Obama primary and won't get involved in Romney vs. Obama either. I'll be happy to show up and vote for conservatives in Congress though.
Unfortunately, the “we” is now Republicans. We no longer have the luxury of a tailor-made Conservative. We have to build him/her once in office. The primary season was wasted in that effort because of all the insane space taken up by Herman Cain. The same is now true of Santorum. A joke. A diversion we couldn’t afford if we were to make great strides in the Republican party.
I have often told the story of the near defeat of Conservatives enemy #1, Harry Reid of Nevada. He won his seat by a meager 401 votes in 1998. How important was that? Almost ten thousand voters went to the trouble of voting “none of these candidates.” Had 402 of them voted to give the Republican a chance, Harry Reid wouldn’t have been around to create the anti-conservative movement he perfected. As it turned out, the Republican opponent went on to become a slime ball too in his personal life.
I’m just saying. The public is more informed now. We can afford to hold someone’s feet to the fire but we have to give that person a mandate....not let him win for sentimental reasons. I want to know now who running mates would be.