> our boy Mitt destroyed conservative opposition in the primaries.
Did he?
IIRC, Mitt never got even 30% of any primary vote.
The real problem is that the conservative camp was split among three or more candidates. Bachman, Gingrich, Santorum, etc, and the implosion of the Cain campaign.
If there were just one conservative running against Mitt, he would not be the nominee-designate.
Sorta.
The real problem is that plurality "victory" should not be permitted in primary elections.
The distribution of delegates at the nominating convention should reflect the proportional support they had, pre-convention, and if there is no majority because that's the state of the party, so be it.
Being nominated should require 2/3 of the delegates (which it did prior to 1968), this would crush weak "frontrunners" and force the delegates to come up with someone acceptable to all factions.
And why is it always this way?