[ladyjane]

To be accurate -

Conservatives have been instrumental in taking out conservatives for two straight elections.

[xzins]

A lot of me agrees with you. Egos have been instrumental. So has funding. Someone has provided enough funding for multiple conservatives to get into the race initially.

But the funding is designed to have conservatives split the conservative vote (which is the larger vote) and then get picked off one by one leaving the field to the “moderate”.