[newguy357]

So I will take that bow for trying even if I end up with a RINO and then I’ll assume you will take that bow for BHO - because you didn’t.

What a crappy analysis. The amount of hard-core conservatives who stayed home in 2008 was minuscule. All of them could have voted for McCain and he still would have lost. The reasons Obama won are twofold: 1) novelty (guilt-ridden whites could finally "prove" they weren't racist); 2) Bush pissed off all independents.

Again, all of the hard-core conservatives who stayed home in 2008 could have voted for McCain and he would have lost. You can't win a presidential election when your predecessor has killed off all independent support.

[mike_9958]

Newguy - you are right it is a crappy analysis, and I didn't say “hard-core conservative staying home were to blame”.

I said if you stay home you are not part of the process and you get to take the credit for not voting for a republican, and in a predominantly two party system if you don't vote for the conservative / Republican you get to take some credit for the loss of the Republican or conversely the democratic win.

And furthermore if you disenfranchise other would-be conservative voters I may be inclined to go further as to the harm a person can do.

In the end we want the same things, and we need good conservative candidates - hopefully we won't build the proverbial circular firing squad like we did in 2006 and 2008.

[DB]

“You can’t win a presidential election when your predecessor has killed off all independent support.”

Obama is about to prove that again... Only in the other direction...