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So... it's the same old republican line once again...

Our chance to bump Romney was during the primaries. We couldn't get it done. That is your fault, my fault and every other conservative's fault for failing to adequately find, nominate, support and CONVINCE enough voters to pull the lever for a better candidate *DURING THE PRIMARIES*.

Now that we are in the General campaign -- presuming you do not want to re-elect Obama -- logic, reasonableness and prudence dictates you must do everything you can for the most viable, opposing candidate. There is no other rational argument. Any other decision is more often blind-emotion and drama-queen hissy-fits, usually hiding behind a faux-claim of making a "principled stand" in the best interest of the country, or some other transparent, churched-up attempt at rationalizing the flawed premise that allowing Obama to be re-elected by not going all out for the most viable challenger is a better option.

Meanwhile, those of us who refuse to quit have to make the difficult decision to keep on fighting with the piss-poor candidate we have and hopefully find and promote a primary challenger to unseat Romney (if he gets elected) at the next election. If you have such a sure-thing candidate, then get him ahead of the GOP's candidate and I'll surely vote for him!! Otherwise, the GOP's candidate will be (like it or not) the most viable candidate opposing Obama.

This time, we had no conservative candidate that possessed the leadership qualities to unite us, so we *CLEARLY* need to do a better job selecting candidates. I don't care who your mystery *BEST-POSSIBLE* candidate is, if he was worth a damn as a leader, we would all be behind him now, united in staunch support. And we aren't. So, every candidate that ran this time? Out of contention for next time as far as I'm concerned. None of them were leaders of sufficient caliber. Doesn't matter the purity of their conservatism if they can't get a voter to vote for them. They all failed to gather a critical mass of support. They failed to convince and sway voters. They. Failed. Period. That's the ugly truth. And I don't want to hear jack-squat about the MSM or the GOP stacking the deck. We will *ALWAYS* have to contend with that foolishness and underhanded dirty-dealing. We need to find candidates that can overcome those obstacles and sway the voters IN SPITE OF IT. It's been done before (Reagan?). Those candidates surely exist, we just have to find & recruit them to run.

You want to change it? we've got four years to get our act together for the next presidential primary season. We all need to make the following decision right now: lead, follow or get the hell out of the way.