Unfortunately there is a good deal of evidence that a more conservative candidate would have performed worse.
What you are saying is a variant of the old saw, “We just aren’t presenting our case well.”
I wish conservatives would give some thought to whether the problem is the message, not the messenger.
I happen to agree, in general, with the conservative message. But it’s clear to me that more and more Americans don’t. Doubling down on it may be the right thing to do, but it isn’t likely to win elections.
“Unfortunately there is a good deal of evidence that a more conservative candidate would have performed worse.”
Yeah, from the same crowd that was telling us Romney was electable. They were wrong then and they are wrong now.
Right. Romney’s electability problem was not his lack of ideology but rather the fact that he was so ‘elitist.’ He was another Kerry or HW Bush. Remember when GOP-e women cried and begged Christie to run and he turned them down? They knew they’d be stuck with Romney who wasn’t a ‘man of the people.’
I have found that reality is always more interesting (and ultimately more satisfying) than fantasy. Maybe it’s just my natural predilection for the natural sciences. Saying that the polls, all of them, are wrong, that the media, all of them, are lying, etc., that’s a fantasy and it will come back to bite you in the end. The pollsters were right, Nate Silver was right, and the next Republican to win the Presidency will have to appeal to voters in Ohio/Florida/Virginia, and those are not deep red states.
The left controls the schools and has been teaching their agenda for several decades.