I have stared at the numbers from 2012 from various different directions, and have come to the conclusion that no route leads to the WH without grabbing a sizable influx of the younger crowd.
Turnout just isn’t going to get it done in 16. It might gain seats in both houses in 14, but even that sets up a pendulum swing in 16 from blowback...
And while Rand isn’t my favorite, he is the only candidate that ‘might’ be able to leverage some youth vote. Cruz will swing the youth vote farther left!
Cruz is seen as an ‘old-school’ conservative by anyone over 45, and that just doesn’t sell the story to any of the voters that went to Obama in 08 or 12. Rand ‘might’ be able to get voters that went Democrat last time... Cruz will only get the same crowd that came up short last time.
And while Rand won’t inspire the Evangelical crowd, I doubt he would inspire them to let Hillary win by default!
The ticket has to find a way to GAIN more voters, and stop trying to preach to the choir...
‘True Conservatives’ make up over half the party, but the party makes up less than half of the voter base... so ‘True Conservatives’ can’t deliver national elections by themselves.
There are 90 million who don’t vote ! Go to them first! They come in all ages.
I think we can handle things.
BTW, given the extravagant promises and exorbitant costs of allowing Democrats in office it's time to run a real Conservative and see what happens.
BTW, our candidates have to accuse Democrats of crimes and immorality ~ trying to ally us with cannibals in Syria is a grabber.
There's no sense in failing to criticize the Democrats. Romney didn't do it. McCain didn't do it. HOW UTTERLY STUPID OF THEM
Best bet here is to purge the GOP-e leadership elite. I'm sure their voting block would rather vote for Conservatives than wild eyed commies. I hope they would. Bet they hope they would to.