IF they are so powerful, they should be able to mobile and pick the candidate. They are not willing to do that. They want to tell the party WHO they can pick.
That is not how a Constitutional Republic works.
Fair enough.
The goal of CONSERVATIVES is to make sure that the GOP nominates a CONSERVATIVE, thus it is MANDATORY to do anything necessary to defeat Rooty Toot. Now, I understand that this might not have the support of your WAnker comrades, but that’s how CONSERVATIVES feel.
This is exactly how a Constitutional Republic works. People have the God-given right of free association. Each adult has a Constitutionally derived right to vote for -- or withhold his/her vote from -- any candidate. Obviously citizens have every right to band together in a loose group as the religious right has and say they will or will not vote for a given candidate.
The Reagan coalition of social conservatives, libertarian conservatives and national security hawks only exists as long as it's in all our mutual interests. Neither social conservatives nor libertarian conservatives demand veto power over the GOP candidate -- many of us are simply saying that if it's Giuliani, we can't vote for him. That's not demanding veto power -- no one has denied you the right to form a new coalition and replace our votes, if you can.