We have a POTUS whose favorability rating among all Americans is near record lows. Clearly, the right GOP candidate has a wide open opportunity to make Barack Obama a one-term president.

But we have a field of Republican candidates which includes only three candidates that any reasonable person would say has the intelligence, temperament and experience to serve as our president. Of those three, probably only two could reasonably be expected to win the 2012 general election. Yet less than half of Republicans would vote for those three candidates. More than half of GOP primary voters still support candidates who are obviously flawed in one way or another, a couple embarrassingly so, but more importantly hold no chance whatsoever of getting a 51% plurality of Americans voting in the general election.

Why? Is there some reason why the majority of Republicans are still supporting primary candidates who are incompetent to serve as president and hold no chance of winning the general election? Are Republicans so confident that ANY Republican candidate will be elected, even if they are clearly unqualified to serve in that position? That would be false confidence and a really bad electoral outcome, for sure.

Voters have a free choice, no doubt. But why are we continuing to choose and support candidates who are so obviously flawed? Wouldn't Republicans be better served by coalescing behind one or two competent and competitive candidates? Please, try to answer the question and try to avoid attacking me for asking about what is so obvious