Did conservatives not realize that if they didn’t vote for a conservative candidate that a non-conservative candidate would get the nomination?
Romney, Thompson and Huck split the conservative vote while the “big tent” Republicans voted for McCain. Seems to me Huck was never more than a stalking horse for McCain, running for VP. Conservatives were aced out brilliantly. Like me, I’m sure conservatives wish that they had settled on one candidate early on, but if wishes were horses, etc. Now we are faced with four years from which the conservative movement (and the country) will never recover and drastic measures are called for. Through amnesty and further loosening already lax voter requirements, demographics will forever be shifted to the left in the aftermath of an election which some intend as an object lesson. Sheer folly!