That’s ok. I’d rather not refight the wars of last autumn.
I’d rather stick to my general point, that we failed to unite.
The fact that we didn’t unite, and still couldn’t unite even if given another chance, means that whoever I name here as a “good candidate” will draw sniping and bitterness, so I prefer not to get into it.
I will repeat what I said about Perry (and again, I’m not saying he should have been or could have been the candidate): he was viciously maligned here on FR. A bunch of conservative posters acted like freaking French revolutionaries and it was really disgusting and obscene.
You said that we had a lot of good candidates so I asked you to name two.
My point, which I made above, is that none of them were all that good.
I think that you in fact agree with me on this point which is why you didn’t name anyone.
They all had serious flaws which is why we didn’t unite around any one of them.