[The Truth Will Make You Free]

The primary system is broken. There needs be a conservative primary first who would then beat the establishment candidate.

[TexasFreeper2009]

It was working pretty good till they rigged it for Romney by making all the Southern States that used to be winner take all proportional, while simultaneously making all the Mormon heavy states winner take all then clustering most of them near the front for the greatest possible effect.

But even that wasn't enough... so they then came up with a plan to remove the competition from the ballot in Virginia and many other states, and even tried to steal Iowa from poor lill Santorum, and continued to push Texas back until it wouldn't matter.

This whole process was a setup from the start.

And they won't be getting my vote as a reward in November, the whole country can burn before I'll vote for that SOB Romney and his Tea Party hating, GOP insider enablers.

[stig]

The primary system is broken. There needs be a conservative primary first who would then beat the establishment candidate.

I agree and I think you have found the key issue into why there is so much vitriol on free republic towards the nomination of Gov. Romney. It was expressed here many times as: "If only (Newt, Santorum, Perry, etc) would drop out then (Newt, Santorum, Perry, etc) can show he is the conservative that can beat Romney."

If we had a conservative caucus organization that selected a conservative candidate by a majority only voting process we could select a candidate that conservatives could rally behind. At least they would know that a majority of their fellow conservatives agreed.

But more importantly the conservative organization could then contribute money and manpower to their candidate giving them a ready made organization to combat the elites choice who will already have state republican organizations at their disposal.