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So, why do you think that is? Did we, or you, not have a dog in this fight? If not, why not? If so, why didn't the TrueConservative^TM get the nod? There is only so much we can blame on "the old-line party apparatus", and "smoke-filled rooms".

I'm just asking the question, not making accusations. I've seen election after election where conservatives bemoan the character and quality of the candidates on our side, but I always wonder, why don't we have the perfect, absolutely pure, 100% TrueConservative^TM step up and get on the ballot?

"If so, why didn't the TrueConservativeTM get the nod? There is only so much we can blame on "the old-line party apparatus", and "smoke-filled rooms"."

It's not just the old-line party apparatus...

You have a gay liberal media that has been pimping Romney since 2006.
That same media didn't hesitate to tear down any Conservative that challenged Romney. Santorum and Gingrich were the only two that survived that process.
You have a republican establishment that is apparently run by Democrats. You have Romney with considerably more funds than his opponents.
You have Ron Paul that has his own niche, but apparently has some arrangement with Romney, probably a cabinet seat. Paul siphoned off the libertarians and a portion of the conservative vote, that would have voted conservative.
You've got Romney with a significant ownership position in talk radio.
And then you have a conservative field that couldn't consolidate early enough to derail Romney.
I don't know what the solution is, except for enough people to become wise to the liberal media and quit listening to them when they hype a RINO. And for people to get serious about their core values.

"I've seen election after election where conservatives bemoan the character and quality of the candidates on our side, but I always wonder, why don't we have the perfect, absolutely pure, 100% TrueConservativeTM step up and get on the ballot?"

Because the bipartisan political/regulator class has the time and money to participate in politics for now. But the politicos--nearly all of them socialists and dependent directly or indirectly on government for their incomes--are being paid increasingly from debt.

They'll only see their vanities and continue robbing the real producers more hysterically, until they're paid only from debt (no more revenues for them). They're the favored constituents for now, but they're deposing themselves. We'll see small government after the collapse.