[muawiyah]

Let me correct you on that. There were 16 candidates signed up (or formally announced). There were another half dozen who didn't formally announce but noised around about it.

Of those ONLY 3 were lifelong Conservative Republicans.

Most of the others had been Democrats, major Democrat donors, Democrat campaign workers or members of other parties, and sometimes had even been public office holders under the Democrat banner.

So, there were 3 of ours, and 21 of theirs ~ which necessarily includes Romney.

Their purpose was quite simple ~ to peel off disaffected Conservatives (like the Mitbots) and to show lower vote totals so that Mitt's 20% totals wouldn't look so bad.

It worked.

The solution next time is to run a couple of dozen lifelong Conservative Republicans in all the primaries so that some of them can pick off disaffected GOP-e voters while, at the same time, making the main line Conservative vote totals look really good!

We need to give the impression we own the party since it's pretty obvious that simply owning it isn't enough ~

[bert]

———The solution next time ———

I would argue the solution for next time is to choose the conservative before the Republican primary. That is, conservatives should have a secondary. In conventions or caucus or what ever, votes would be held and the conservative coalition candidate would be determined and then put forward for the Republican Primary.

[dirtboy]

Of those ONLY 3 were lifelong Conservative Republicans.

However, it was a cage match among Freepers in fighting over which 3 were the lifelong Conservative Republicans. My point exactly.

[cableguymn]

We need to give the impression we own the party since it’s pretty obvious that simply owning it isn’t enough ~

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Ummm... we don’t own the Gop... The GOP-e owns it. They would prefer to keep us outside with our noses pressed against the glass.

Now, with that said. we SHOULD own the party. So lets take it over.