It is no coincidence that 4 conservatives were splitting their votes while Romney was collecting all the RINO votes. I think this was by design from the GOP-e. I truly do.
The entire conservative field was weak. Bachmann was a non-starter. Cain had no political experience at all. Gingrich was damaged goods. Santorum was a no-name.
I believe all were encouraged to run by the GOP-e. I think it was the GOP-e strategy to dilute the impact of the Tea Party and conservatives so they could shove Romney down our throats.
They certainly didn’t encourage Palin to run, did they? They made it clearly implicit they would destroy her if she ran, so she chickened out or wised up (depends how you see it).
I completely agree with you that the conservative vote was diluted among the four very weak conservative candidates. I just don’t believe that it was coincidence, but rather by design from the GOP-e.
This is why Limbaugh and Hannity are worthless. They could have picked one candidate to praise and might have started a groundswell behind that candidate giving them momentum. But they never do. In the end, they always carry the water for the GOP-e, not conservatives.
So you're saying those four conservative candidates were not really conservatives at all, but rather GOP-e agents? If so, then why do you bother referring to them as "conservatives"? And if not, then how is it they were willing accomplices in the GOP-e effort to dilute the conservative vote?
I know what I'm about to say is not nearly as titillating as your dastardly GOP-e conspiracy theory, but the simple fact is: We conservatives did this to ourselves by fielding too many candidates.