During every presidential election cycle the left inserts its favorite candidate into the Republican nomination fight. Sometimes, like in 2008, Democrats nominate their preferred Republican. Other times, the left prevents a genuine conservative from getting the nomination. What the left does at the presidential level it does in other political races at all, putting "moderate" Republicans in Congress and statehouses. We, in stark contrast, do not even try to place our sort of Democrat within their party. Why?
