I think a lot of conservatives are finally coming around to the conclusion that when you hold your nose & vote for the one “who can win” - that you get what you vote for!
Fool me once - shame on you, fool me twice - shame on me. I won’t be fooled again. Americans need to start voting according to their values & principles or we are doomed.
You’re right, whining won’t accomplish this - but we do need to get the word out that a large number of us are watching the candidates intently & we won’t be voting the “party line” anymore. Those days are over - I hope!
Kind of interesting that all the candidates who are most in line with the hard core Freepers political dogmas cannot even get over 5% in the preference polls. So who are the Hard Core "Conservatives" going to blame if their pet candidates get rejected in the primaries? Doubtlessly they will rationalize it as the fault of the GOP Establishment.
The Purists are going to run into the hard cold political reality that elections are won by coalitions of interests, not by the candidate who claim to be the most doctrinally pure.