There is no hope for a winning GOP candidate.
The far right conservatives will trash all of them because they're not 'pure' enough. The GOP decides they can't count on conservatives so they move further to the left.
That's a lie spread by GOP-E operatives. Romney didn't even match his own party platform on abortion, amnesty, 2nd amendment, socialized medicine, or big government.
That ain't about purity, that's about Romney being a flat-out liberal.
The liberal republicans must be politically destroyed and never win another election.
/johnny
You are blind to reality. The "pure" factor is your own emotional defensiveness in assigning motive.
I will vote for a candidate based on what he says he will do if he WINS.
You will vote for a candidate based on what you fear will happen if he loses.
I refuse to vote for a candidate who has a record of advancing government intrusion on five major levels, moral, material, financial, legal, and medical.
I'm such a purist ... I actually want to vote for something along the lines of ... well, better food, and you are outraged because voting for garbage was "beneath" me I am such a purist!