Once Palin decided not to run, I could have held my nose and voted for Gingrich.
Both of these have sizable and vocal opposition here. The problem is closer to home than blaming the party, IMHO.
Start a third party and I believe you will have the same problems, the same arguments, the same disunity. Until this is overcome, nothing really changes.
I’m not insinuating a third party like some harridans on this thread (who do not know me) are contending. I don’t believe a third party will work with our election system. I am, however, fed up with fear voting and I asked a simple question about where conservatives draw their voting line in the sand when it comes to the same old Dole/McCain/Romney - and even Bush candidates.
Thank you for your sane replies.
It is easy to state, as many here do, that Romney was wired for the nomination by the scoundrels of the GOP-elite.
It is much harder to identify the solid conservative candidate that we would all have rallied behind had not the GOP-e evildoers done their dirty.
There are a lot of reasons Romney got where he did and very little of it is to blame on the conservatives who didn’t want him. There was only one other credible candidate who didn’t look like a newbie up there or look unpresidential, and that was Newt. Everyone else could easily raise doubts in the voters’ minds as to whether they would be electable against Obama.
Since there was absolutely nothing intrinsic to Newt that made him seem unelectable, the only way that could be done was by Romney destroying his reputation in a shameless, unforgiving, dishonest and brutal manner. Since Romney had far more money than any other candidate, he was able to spew his lies and very little could be done to counter them by his opposition.
Lastly, the party-run media FOX News, Drudge Report, National Review, Washington Times and many RINO radio shows all received their talking points from the RNC and followed orders. Since conservatives heavily get their news from those outlets, nominating anyone other than Romney was about as hard as electing a non-Communist in China. The betrayal by the conservative media of their core audience is the biggest untold story of this election cycle.