[JCBreckenridge]

Simpler answer.

Conservatives have left the republican party in 2008 with the nomination of McCain.

They ain’t coming back. That’s the crucial 6, 7 percent of the party that determines which way the wind goes. They pull their support - the republicans lose - they come in and turn out, Republicans win. Same as it always was.

Nominate a conservative and we’ll be wondering “why was this so hard?”

[muawiyah]

The simpler answer is the wrong answer. The leftwingtards ~ the countryclubbers ~ abandoned the party after W. They've got a long history of doing that ~ goes way back into the 1800s. It's the moral folks, the Abolitionists and their successors, who stick through the party and vote out of their sense of patriotism ~ something you cannot ever expect of the GOP-e.

There's your answer ~ the godless, soulless, atheist, homosexualist, double-dealer, kneejerk, robotlike, kneejerk crowd who imagine they run the Republican party ABANDONED IT

[muawiyah]

BTW, in 2006 we saw a mid-term where it seemed the Republican party had been overrun by and taken over by homosexuals and pedophiles. We lost 26 million voters from the total we'd had in the previous presidential race.

That was the greatest mid-term defection in history ~ most analysts have used that as an upper limit to the Conservative vote assuming all Conservatives chose that as an opportunity to show displeasure. Actually, that was just the hard-core Christian vote who concern themselves with such matters in politics ~ there are about 17 million of thems. The other 9 million were simply voters who prefer to not vote in anything but the presidential race.

The fall off from W to McCain is no where near the 17 million hard core serious minded Christian numbers ~ it's just 4 million. That's the Republican left.