Like We Haven't Been Patient Enough; Candidate Selection for Conservatives Requires Even More

As the article preceding this post indicates, coming up with viable, conservative candidates is sometimes more of a challenge than any of us thought.

If 2010 and 2012 taught us anything, it is that having a candidate that is simply an outsider is not necessarily enough. Often, there's a good reason why candidates have been on the fringe of movements and without some pretty careful vetting, those reasons pop out,


The lesson is probably that not every political insider or prior officeholder is philosophically suspect nor is every person coming from outside the traditional political process a political savior..ed