I never voted for either party for a while, but I think Obama and people like him are an exception. See my problem with your line of thought is that conservatives are easily divided and conquered by the most simple of differences. It’s not the parties fault that we’re not proactive and putting in OUR leaders into the republican party. We got Mitt...because we lack the will. I don’t play the victimization role of the left. WE.....ARE THE ones to blame!
But again, I would rather have Mitt than Obama and I wouldn’t want a third party to interrupt conservatives from really influencing the republican party.
On a sideline note, how much of the conservative base was talking about the housing bubble and medical/medicare/medicaid cost here or anywhere for that matter (before it happened)? I was talking about medical arena for sometime and predicted that eventually we’d have to make a chose. But most of the conservative here got fixated on far less important topics in the long-run and I truly think our lack of will is what is to blame. If most of us paid attention and actually acted more than talked, then we wouldn’t be in this mess...and I’m willing to take some of that blame. Are the rest of the freepers that willing? Are you?
Not entirely true. Look at the people that really did have the will: Ron Paul supporters.
There were several bad calls WRT the primaries that benefited Romney at the expense of Paul; the one that sticks out in my mind is the one where they rules-lawyered their right to delegates (a fair win) and the rules were retroactively changed so that Romney got their delegates. (Add that to the teleprompter-incident at the RNC which accepted a rule-change forcing voters in the electoral college to vote for the assigned candidate and it really does indicate a conspiracy.)