What did the Conservatives do to win though? Sure we can beat up Romney all day long—he stinks. But so do the Conservatives. The one most of us wanted didn’t run (Sarah) and she toyed with the idea for a long time which may have discouraged others from running. I’m not blaming her because others should have ran regardless.
Now we are left with Gingrich, Santorum, and Perry.
Perry didn’t debate well, so we are all scared to go with that pony into a debate with Obama. Gingrich debates extremely well, but isn’t very likable and has had some pretty big faux pas over the years. Santorum isn’t charismatic or a very good leader—not exactly one someone would rally behind as a leader.
So out of our 3 conservatives...which one do we go with? Conservatives can’t decide—if they could rally behind one we could beat the moderate/wishy-washy Mittens, but we can’t. Which 2 of the 3 should drop out?
Heck Huntsman (moderate) dropped out which helps Mittens. It is what it is and the moderates are better able to get their candidate on top. The Conservatives can’t even win the Republican nomination—what makes you think they can win a general election? Until they learn how to fight within the party and WIN then we are stuck with moderates.
Good point. Let’s quit empowering moderates and liberals within the party. Let’s quit blindly supporting socialist light candidates like Romney just because they have an R behind their name.
I for one didn’t want Palin to run. Although she’s clearly much more conservative than Romney, she has even bigger issues.
Where some conseravtives will swallow their pride to vote for Romney, the same can’t and won’t be said for some moderate republicans and virtually none of the moderate independents that Romney is getting and that Newt and maybe Santorum could have garnered.
She’s too big (and easy) of a target to be the one at the top of the ticket at this point. That and since she wouldn’t reach 40% (Let’s be realistic here, conservatives only comprise about 35% of the actual electorate that votes, and her presence would galvanize the left) in the general election seems like too big a risk and not enough of a reward factor in something to vitally important.
Essentially the 2012 election sucks already and we’re 15 days in.