Well, that, yeah, and also by giving the moderate du jour, whichever dominated in the early primaries, an automatic heavy lead, as the early primaries are decided by left-leaning states. By the time the primary gets to my state, my vote is between two turds. What a charade.
The Republican "brand" is a bad joke in America across informed and LIV territory. It almost doesn't matter who gets the nomination, but most likely, a Democrat Lite Republican will get it.
Republican and Democrat are two brands of one product: heavier government. The GOP tries to craft a prettier brand. Americans are getting restless, although MSM is deaf to it, for a new PRODUCT.
I pray that in the 2016 presidential election, a politically polished and sparkling limited government Christian conservative runs "independent," or so-called "third" party and has at least as good success as Perot. He made it so no matter which liberal candidate won, it would have been on a plurality, meaning liberalism lost. Clinton was weakened because of it. Would the Republican Revolution have happened otherwise?
The Republican party should by rights be the limited government party. The battle of introducing a new party or having the Republican party take the mantle of being the limited government party, will happen in Congress.
In the presidential race, if a Democrat-Lite Republican wins, republicans in Congress will move left. If he loses, limited government Republicans will be just that much stronger in Congress.
I would much rather have a far left wing liberal running to the left of Hillary as an independent or third-party candidate. Bill Clinton got elected both times because of Perot. This time I want the liberals to split their votes.
We have to win the long game if we are going to have a chance of saving this country. That means (1) taking over the Senate in 2014, (2) electing a conservative President and holding on to the House and Senate in 2016, and (3) replacing RINOs with conservatives in 2018. If we cannot accomplish both (1) and (2) then the country will be destroyed before we can accomplish (3).