What this highlights is that conservatives should stop trashing each other or we’re gonna end up with a candidate such as Christie.
Agreed. One candidate needs to emerge early in the process.
America has to trash quite a few "conservatives" and Republicans, sorry! There has to be some bottom line grounding principle. I think the 2nd Amendment is a good place to start. You're in or you're out on that one alone.
Take Rick Santorum for example. Am I "trashing" him to point out that, Christian "family values" guy that he is, he is in many ways of the government mold that I feel compelled to trash!
No, saying "hush, children, stop arguing" will solve zero.
If it ends up being Third Party time, I say what another poster here says: We need a 2nd party, not a third party, because Repub and Dem are the same party, as some folks call it, a Uniparty. At the very least, a 2nd Amendment Reduce Federal Government minded "third" party could at least throw the Uniparty victor (Dem or Repub) into miserable plurality minority status. It weakened Clinton, it could weaken the next leftist nightmare in the White House.
I'm just sayin' that if it ends up in 2016 the way it did in 2014, with Uniparty "opponents," the best thing to get behind is a third party, if only to deny any count to the Uniparty.