Thus far in the primaries, we’ve had ups and downs.

Crist went independent after we helped Marco Rubio hand him his backside in the Florida primary.  Right now, Rasmussen has him ahead, which isn’t so much of a problem considering all the time now we have to go to work on him.  Rubio’s primary fight is over, so we have until November to finish the electoral job on the Maverick Pumpkin and put our guy across the finish line.

On the down side, Coats won the primary in Indiana against Stutzman.  What a waste of an opportunity to get a real Senator from Indiana.  The NRSC gets its chosen establishment type, and the Hoosiers get to decide whether or not they want to hold their noses this November.  But enough of that.

It’s time to apply some cold analysis and review the ups and downs of the primaries so far.  In this way, those of us who want real conservatives can improve upon our techniques to get them and put more marks in the “win” column in the primaries to come.

• Defeats like the Coats irritation occur when there is more than one conservative candidate running against a RINO.  The solution is demonstrated by the Rubio victory?  Get behind a single conservative early.  It’s up to any given state’s conservatives to decide who that is, but to avoid future incidents such as Coats’ resurgence or the Mark Kirk nomination in Illinois, the decision must be made for certain and early enough that we aren’t caught trying to pull 11th hour miracles with a split field.  It may seem remorseless to thin a promising field of conservative candidates to achieve this, but the alternative is the RINO.  Divided we fall.
• The Precinct Project is showing some real muscle in Utah.  RedState covers the travails of Bob Bennett, who may be on the receiving end of this plan in the very near future.  ColdWarrior there can tell you more about it, and while he tends to be a bit pushy, his theory is sound and producing results.  If you’re not already running a plan of your own, consider The Precinct Project.
• The Republican National Committees still have too much power to inflict establishment Republicans on us.  The RNC and the NRSC in particular have proven annoying, and at this point there’s no further reason to consider the possibility that they’ll ever change their ways.  Fortunately, alternatives like DeMint’s groups and the Heritage Foundation’s new 501(c)4 are rising as alternatives.  As they prove themselves worthwhile, we can continue to decimate RINO power in the Republican committees by using such outside help as viable alternative to getting real conservatives elected.
• Candidates can be made viable.  The argument used by the RINO shills that we have to nominate the most electable moderate candidate rings hollow.  We’re bringing people like Marco Rubio and Doug Hoffman up from nothing to defeat, or come close to defeating, the supposedly “desirable” milquetoast garbage the Republicans wish to foist on us.  If the milquetoast garbage was only going to vote with the Democrats anyway, their win or loss isn’t exactly relevant.  So, unless we’re talking about a complete loon, it’s not a matter of “choose the RINO or lose the election.”  It’s a matter of “We want such-and-so, and we will put them across the finish line as we’ve done in the past.”  Can-do matters, and it works.

I know the news from Indiana isn’t happy today, but we can learn from our mistakes and avoid them in the future.