“Obviously we would both choose a principled conservative if we had that option. “
Can’t let this slide either.
No you wouldn’t. You didn’t. The very utterance and posting of your philosophy eliminates voting for one. Nearly every RINO has someone running against them more conservative. And the astronomically rare one that does not still has a ballot with a write in.
Your fellows have had 39ish years to prove you’d vote for the more conservative candidate, yet here we are with the most liberal congress to ever pollute the GOP. You wanna explain how that happened considering almost all of them had a more conservative opponent in the primary and/or the general?
Are we to believe that in 30 years, no conservatives ran?
No. What happened was situational ethics reared its head and conservative principles got kicked in the face so a bunch of closeted democrats could WIN!!!! for the sake of winning. Not win to make a positive difference. No, just to claim bragging rights.
You and yours had a number of far more conservative candidates on the primary ballots than Mitt Romney. And they were on those ballots in the 50 American states and likely the 7 more Barry added. Unsurprising the “I’m conservative...really!” crew didn’t vote for them. they voted for Mitt “Less conservative than Obama” Romney (Even Barry opposed homo marriage once...Mitt never did).
So that’s an outright lie. You didn’t. Mitt lost as we said he would. Instead of a conservative, the Cheshires pushed a liberal in the primaries, got him and lost.
Now if I am mistaken, please tell me how your statement holds true when actual conservatives stayed true to principle? How did Mitt end up a candidate?
How the hell do you pretend to know who I would support. Last election I started supporting Gingrich. After he dropped out I went with Perry. When I got to the general I supported Romney. You may feel good about writing in a name, but you are just wasting your time. There is a reason their name is not on the ballot.