You are exactly correct. From the time this started people around here were sold on someone who wasn’t running. They didn’t know that until too late. They had already been trashing anyone that wasn’t that candidate in order to clear the way for that candidate.
If it wasn’t for that, you may have seen folks come together on a candidate.
So...here we are.. it is a shame.
You are correct. I never liked the philosophy..... “I think that it is great that there are so many conservatives in the race... we get to debate all the ideas and talk about conservative principles... hopefully this debate between conservative candidates goes all the way to convention.” .... all the time, Romney was smiling knowing that our candidates were going to be debating each other, not him.
I think the other problem is that none of the candidates were “pure” enough for some conservatives.
Maybe they were good on 80-90 percent of the issues- but there is one issue that one segment of conservatives could not live with. And other segment of conservative voters were dead set against another conservative candidate for a different reason.
We need to be more forgiving and to realize that everybody who has been in politics for any length of time has cast a bad vote or made a bad compromise.
Now the “conservative” candidate in the general election is likely to be one who has cast a LOT of bad votes and made a LOT of bad compromises.
Ugh..... I am so frustrated at the nomination process these last few times.