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I’m glad we are calling a truce. I hated to see FR torn apart and such low morale.

I’m late to the party and this may have already been suggested:

My hope and dream, and those of many I talk to, is that before the next election we form a huge, powerful conservative coaltion with an extremely well funded super PAC. Before the next mid terms and especially before the next Presidential, we have a plan in place to “pre-vet” and pre select OUR conservative candidate. We have a platform that any potential candidate to our “wing” of the GOP, or new “Country” party, or whatever we call it must pledge, and we have leadership that looks at those who dare call themselves conservative to see what they’ve really stood for. Set a standard for what is acceptable % compliance and then from among the available candidates, vet them and come up with ONE that will run either within the GOP against whoever the GOPe decides to put up for “their” candidate, or on a third party ticket. I think we could take back the GOP but we cant do it with this continual circular firing squad. As someone said, even Reagan might not have gotten the nomination in this climate.

Conservative Candidate selection, DONE BEFORE THE PRIMARY SEASON STARTS!

ONE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE to go up against the GOPe choice!

How do we select them out of the media eye, yet include true conservatives in the selection process? I don’t know — but we better figure it out, or we are going to get even more liberal/socialist candidates every year from now on, if we even survive to another election.

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Does anyone have any numbers added up of all the conservative candidate primary votes vs. Mitt Romney votes? I'm curious. If we added all the votes cast for Perry, Cain, Santorum, Gingrich and Bachman, how would they stack up against Romney? My guess is it would have been a blowout against Romney, (even more without his brutal dirty campaign tricks).

edited from my previous post:

My hope and dream, and those of many I talk to, is that before the next election we form a huge, powerful conservative coaltion with an extremely well funded super PAC. Before the next mid terms and especially before the next Presidential, we have a plan in place to “pre-vet” and pre select OUR conservative candidate.

We have a platform that any potential candidate to our “wing” of the GOP, or new “Country” party ,( or whatever we call it) must pledge to uphold. We have leadership that looks at those who dare call themselves conservative to see what they’ve really stood for and voted for.

Set a standard for what is acceptable % compliance and then from among the available candidates, vet them and come up with ONE that will run within the GOP against whoever the GOPe decides to put up for “their” candidate. Or alternatively on a third party ticket.

I think we could take back the GOP doing this up and down the ticket, but we cant do it with this continual circular firing squad. As someone said, even Reagan might not have gotten the nomination in this climate.

Conservative Candidate selection, DONE BEFORE THE PRIMARY SEASON STARTS!

ONE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE to go up against the GOPe choice!