Erick Erickson as a willing moderator with an equally willing network to format.  Governor Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.  Let the three of them go at each other on the real issues that Americans are facing, jobs and the economy.  To honor Reagan’s “three legged stool” rule; foreign policy, social & fiscal conservative policies of each of the three candidates should be dissected and discussed at lengths.  Foreign policy should trump all, as domestic policies are null and void when our borders are unprotected and American interests abroad are not secured.

Many of Governor Perry supporters feel that he is the last true social conservative standing on the stage, a strong record on all three components of the proverbial stool.  In a year where conservatives should not have to settle, calls by well known right voices are doing just that, especially to the Governor.  Referring to a Newt Gingrich potential loss in South Carolina being a direct result of failure from the two Rick’s to depart the race.  Currently, Gingrich has less delegates than the other two, current polling trends suggest that will change after Saturday.  Nevertheless, conservatives are fractured into three camps, currently, and each camp for the most part believes in their candidate as making the strongest case against first, Mitt Romney, and then ultimately against Barack Obama.

I realize many are debate-weary.  However, in this very important election year with a very weakened incumbent, currently polling dangerously low for a re-election rally, conservatives need to stick to their principles in my opinion.  Get the three guys together,  let them hash it out on point-counterpoint until the issue is exhausted.  Conservatives need a voice, as blogger Melissa Clouthier (@MelissaTweets for Tweeters) explained via her podcast, conservatives need a leader that can clearly outline conservative values with a strong record to back it up.

If the “three” stay in the race, subsequently resulting in a Mitt Romney nomination than that is God’s will.   The case to be made for a true conservative reverts back to three candidates that they were unable to make their case, to “sell” their own electability respectively to the voting electorate.  I am a firm believer in the old saying “let the chips fall where they may”.