Um, the RNC doesn't nominate the candidate; WE do. And in this very race there were several more conservative candidates, but guess what? Hardly anyone voted for them.
And instead of taking responsibility for that, people sit around moaning about how the RNC this, the GOP that and on and on. It's OUR responsibility to rally around a candidate and we didn't do it. So of course a less conservative candidate won.
Thank you for working to get conservative congresscritters elected. However,the same reasoning that people are now using to justify refusing to vote for the Republican nominee caused many conservatives to sit home in 2006, and is something that will have to be overcome in 2008.
We can't constitute a majority in Congress without a bunch of good, decent conservatives in RINO districts having to vote for RINOs. Try to square that with most of the rationales justifying not supporting the nominee (whoever it turned out to be) because he was a RINO, and you see the problem.
It's a well-established fact that protest voting throws elections.
Thank you for your service.
Ummm, you are wrong. The early primaries were held in states that allow open primaries, I guess you missed that huh?, and the people who threw McCain to the top of the heap were not conservatives. The RNC pushed for the Rinos, including McCain, the MSM pushed for McCain and some republicans fell for it. I will vote for the candidate that holds my principles and beliefs, otherwise why vote at all?
McCain does not hold any of my beliefs, altho he talks as if he does sometimes his voting record says different.
Conservatives win elections, they always have, but the republican party officials have to keep learning this over and over. If you wish to live in a socialist country then feel free to vote for McCain, I will not, I want to live in the free country I was born into in 1942 and if it means not voting for McCain, or any other liberal, then that is what I will do.
In case you are not familiar with this concept is is called having the courage of your convictions and standing by them. I know this is probably a new concept for you, I would imagine you are very young yet and have never actually lived in a free country and think that if you compromise enough you will eventually win. Compromise leads to defeat, and we are well on our way to being a communist country and that's the name of that tune.
No, no, you mean the people of IA, NH, SC, and FL did not rally around the conservative candidate. By the time those four primaries were over the Republican primary was basically over except for the counting of votes.
The GOP set it up that way. They set the rules for their primaries so please stop trying to absolve them from any responsibility for this fiasco.