"conservatives want to get even far more than they want to advance political power for conservatism"You are proposing that electing the GOPe candidate will "advance political power for conservatism"? Wow! All I can say is that objective opinions vary significantly! The sheer cognitive dissonance that proposal engenders is crippling.
One of the disadvantages of a two party system is that the path to power requires that you forge alliances with people who do not share every element of your political philosophy. Democrats hate each other, but manage to band together to win political power.
Most folks here demand that we purge the impure and that through some miracle, our 30% block of true conservatives go out there and win national elections. I don’t see that happening.