Sorry for questioning your conservatism.
But I remember how in 2012 we helped the media destroy every last candidate we had, and then acted shocked when Romney won nomination. We blamed the GOPe, but we had a hand in helping Romney clinch his win by trashing all of our other candidates. We’ll do the same in 2016.
You are correct in your analysis, however the GOPe and the enemedia were the ones trashing all the candidates.
As well as some here on FR.