If you run a candidate who supports abortion, illegal immigration, and/or has been divorced several times, you’re going to lose those states to Hillary because the conservatives will just stay home rather than vote.
Right now, the nomination is Thompson's to win or lose, not Roodies and certainly not Mitt's.
If some conservatives stay home, then that proves that all the anti-Clinton bluster on FR and everywhere else was false. Those same people must not dislike the Clintons as much as they claimed if they’re willing to hand them the White House on a platter (one they didn’t steal from it when they left in Jan 2001).