Waiting until the primaries begin is already too late to coalesce behind the best conservative for the job. There's no reason we can't do that now, given all of the information available about the candidates.
Waiting to see 'who's connecting with voters' doesn't tell you who the best man for the job is. Only your careful vetting and study of these people will tell you that.
Think back to 2008. McCain rose to the top of the heap in the primaries, but can you say with any honesty that he was the best man for the job? No, you can't. The fact that he began to steamroll the other primary candidates had nothing to do with his worthiness as a candidate.
Why would you even wait to see how other voters are voting before making up your own mind? I seriously don't get that. That's what low information voters do. If you're just going to throw your support behind whichever Republican runs the fastest, then what's the point of even reading at FR?
“Waiting until the primaries begin is already too late to coalesce behind the best conservative for the job.”
I agree. If a conservative doesn’t win the primary, then the election is already over and lost. Some republicans may be satisfied with a slow march towards socialism, but anyone who calls himself or herself a conservative is by their very nature adverse towards socialism. Unfortunately the GOPe has done a good job with their propaganda campaign and deceived many into believing that ‘republican’ is synonymous with ‘conservative’. This misinformation leads many to believe that it is more important to have a candidate who can beat the democrat nomination rather than to ensure that at least one of the general election candidates is a conservative. To those sorts I ask “what difference does it make?” At that point in time, the answer is none, and then they get all resentful and piss and moan when conservatives don’t go out and vote for either of the libtard candidates, because doing such inherently goes against a conservative’s nature. For some reason, there are those unfortunates who just don’t ‘get it’.
Glad you bring up 2008 election.
Do you recall Romney VOLUNTARILY dropped out early to eliminate dividing RINO voters?
But conservatives had no such unity. Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, Huckabee, Fred Thompson etc did NOT drop out voluntarily.
Same thing happened in 2012.
Romney had no one dividing RINO voters.
But conservatives stayed in race to the bitter end, unless forced to drop out due to lack of money. Santorum and Gingrich fought to the bitter end, clearing path for Romney.