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Yup. Romney was dropped squarely on our shoulders like a pile of crap.

Romney was not "dropped squarely on our shoulders." What happened was what always happened. Instead of getting behind an acceptable Conservative with the chance to win, we divided the vote among several candidates based on litmus tests. This diverted votes from nominal conservatives, who would have been preferrable to Romney, such as Gingrich and Perry to people who passed more of the tests (Santorum, Cain, Bachmann) but had zero chance of winning. On top of that, our primary system is broken. Moderates like Romney and McCain are rewarded for winning huge liberal states like NY & California, which the GOP has zero chance of winning in a general election.

Instead of getting behind an acceptable Conservative with the chance to win, we divided the vote among several candidates based on litmus tests.

Disagree. The "several candidates" bit was Rove's idea -- evidence? Well, the presence of Ed Rollins on Michele Bachmann's campaign staff, for one thing. That tells you where her input was coming from. That's Point One. Point Two is, the advice obviously was not, "Oh, wait, Michele -- if too many conservatives like you jump in, there won't be enough money to mount a credible challenge to the GOP-E candidate, Mitt Romney. Are you sure you want to do this? There are not enough dollars and votes to get you to the nomination, and you'll only end up preventing another conservative from challenging the RiNO's and RNC."

She was NOT getting that sort of advice, prima facie on the evidence of her own actions.

Consider too the sudden reversal of Rick Perry's earlier decision to stay in Texas. Who told him, "Come on in, Rick, the water's fine -- this is your year, your year to win it all, your last chance for the Big Brass Ring, and yes, of course you're perfectly well-suited and have the right background to seek national office -- people in Ohio and Michigan will just love you!"

No, the RiNO's baited those people into the race. Only Mitt had the money to go the distance, and getting everyone else into the race was their way of destroying any chance of a successful conservative challenge: dry up the money, and turn the competition against one another.

We didn't do that.

Pure Rove. Pure evil. But I repeat myself.

Not really true ~ there were 16 candidates. 3 of them were actual lifelong Conservative Republicans. The other 13 weren't ~ could have been Democrat donors, formerly elected as Democrats, Democrat campaigners, Libertarians, etc.

Romney was among the 13, and they siphoned enough votes from real Republicans to make Romney's paltry 22% look decent.

It was probably planned to some degree ~ a number of them certainly got nice vacations at Romney's expense.

You are correct in that the party is wrong to credit states like New York with delegates when, in fact, we will never win there without an Eisenhower or a Reagan ~ neither of whom were sponsored by the GOP-e.

Back in the old days the Souf' got a few delegates just to keep their interest although the Republicans were usually not winning there. That same formula needs to be reinstated!