[Maceman]

Simple, they don’t want a conservative President.

You mean a SEVERELY conservative President, don't you?

Especially now, as our country undergoes total collapse from 100 years of the Progressive assault on our Constitution and on core American values, the reason that people "don't want a conservative president" is because the GOPe has declared war on conservatives.

The conservative argument for liberty, limited government and taxation is so compelling -- especially in light of the disastrous Obama administration now, where we can count the chickens that have come home to roost.

Romney wasn't conservative, couldn't articulate conservative principles and waged war on his conservative rivals -- notably Newt Gingrich, who was the best and most articulate conservative candidate of the pack.

Then he rolled over and failed to win an election that should have been a shoe-in against the most flawed and repellent candidate in modern history.

All he had to do was go on the attack and call Obama out for the anti-American dangerous and incompetent leftist extremist ideologue that he is.

But he didn't do that. It's not that Americans don't want a conservative president. It's that the Republican Party doesn't want one.

[sphinx]

I am 62 years old and have yet to vote in a Republican presidential primary that made a difference. Maybe I will retire to Iowa just for the heck of it. Last time around, my top three choices all declined to run. I ended up passing out some literature and voting for Newt, whom I have always regarded as the best ideas man to come along in a long time, but I did so with full recognition that he has too much personal baggage to ever be viable.

The point is, we rarely have the luxury of the ideal candidate. At this point in the cycle, by all means let's work for one. I like Ted Cruz but I'm skeptical that he can appeal outside the base. There are half a dozen others that I'm willing to get excited about, none of whom have gained much traction in the polls. That, of course, is what the primary process can potentially remedy.

So ... my recommendation all around is that we cut it out with the circular firing squad, and urge our candidates to hammer on the democrats, not each other. And to pick two or three issues of importance, and launch a crusade. May the best man win.

It will, again, be settled long before I vote on it. I hope y'all make a good choice.