In 2012 I tried and failed.
You haven't failed until you give up. There's still time to change this, but we're certain to have the quisling liberal Romney as our nominee, if everyone simply rolls over and accepts it.
I guarantee you, that if every true conservative drew a line in the sand and said, 'Not Another Step Further!', that there'd be fireworks in Tampa, and we'd emerge with a better nominee.
Can you name any conservative media pundit or elected Republican that is spearheading this mutiny?
The ones I listen to (Garrison, Rush, Steyn, Dana Loesh) don’t seem to be promoting it.
A monumental turnaround like you mention won’t happen without a high profile leader, IMHO.
I guarantee you, that if every true conservative drew a line in the sand and said, 'Not Another Step Further!', that there'd be fireworks in Tampa, and we'd emerge with a better nominee."Every true conservative" is easily outnumbered by all the other demographics and political sub-sects that comprise the right hemisphere of politics. "Every true conservative" ain't enough to get it done. We would also have to convince all those folks who aren't "true conservatives" who are voting for Romney and donating gobs of cash to him.
Consider the more conservative candidates running against Romney in the primary. *NONE* of them got anywhere near "threatening close" to Romney. There were just too many moderates, rinos, centrists, blue-bloods, etc. lined up to vote just like they were told to vote -or- they actually preferred Romney. Not to mention Romney's gazillion "bucks of backing". Conservatives never had a chance.
Probably no one here will agree and they definitely won't like hearing it, but we need to grow our conservative-voting head-count by multiple orders of magnitude. We need more financial leverage to compete with "the elite/RINO" money bags as distasteful as that is. I don't see how anything changes in our favor until we get those done, and more. The best we can do for this particular election now is cross our fingers and push some mystery candidate like Hoefling who is virtually unknown outside of conservative circles.
We have *GOT* to find some way to do far, Far, FAR better next time than we did this primary season.