[Yashcheritsiy]

YOU are the idiot. I am guessing you have never run a successful political campaign in your entire life.

Uh huh. Idiots like you are what has ruined the GOP beyond repair. The problem with folks like you is that you think the way to win is to just "broaden the appeal" by continuing to move to the left, figuring that conservatives "have nowhere else to go." Meanwhile, the way to win is to reach voters with your ideas and convince them of their correctness - something which the GOP is signally failing to do, and which Romney completely failed to do this year.

But by all means, keep foisting off establishment insider candidates onto the Party. It can only hasten the demise of the GOP, which is probably a good thing.

[Kansas58]

You obviously do not know what you are talking about, as Romney was not even my 5th choice for Nominee.
However, in the Primary, we must vote for the most conservative candidate available.
In the General, we must defeat the Democrats.
This strategy WOULD work to make the GOP more conservative.

You “purists” really don't count, since it is human nature to ignore, completely, those who refuse to vote of to ignore those who go “Third Party”.