It is not the GOP's fault.
Look yourself in the mirror. It is OUR fault as conservatives for throwing far better candidates out while allowing the RINOs to march toward the nomination.
We either coalesce around a decent, but imperfect, candidate early and hang on to them or we will have another lousy nominee and nobody to blame but ourselves.
Good point and worth repeating. The base can have a voice and select the nom. but the old line “can he/she win” is very convincing to a lot of primary voters.
Several key races were lost due miscalculations. Either the candidate turns out to be an idiot/appears to an idiot and voters vote RAT...several senate races come to mind. Other times someone, like Rubio, Paul and a few others buck all the trends and wins...
Shhhh - there's still too many with visions of sugarplum fairies and perfect candidates to allow someone to spout off such heresy. It's so much easier to keep aiding and abetting the destruction and then complaining about it than it is to come off one's "principles" and back/vote for a less than absolutely perfect candidate...