I actually think a true conservative could have won...not a preachy one like Santorum, but somebody who was pragmatic, experienced and really didn’t give a good GD about what people said about him. That person would have been Newt Gingrich, but Romney and Rush Limbaugh shot him down.
However, that’s water under the bridge and we need to move on. The message of liberty will win because it always has. It just needs somebody who believes in it (Romney was a statist and deep down inside didn’t believe in it outside of a limited economic sphere) and somebody who can get up there and preach it.
We’ve got to start preparing our next candidate NOW! I’m thinking Rubio, Martinez, or maybe even Walker or Rick Scott. The latter two aren’t brilliant speakers, so maybe they wouldn’t be able to convince outside of their states. But we’ve got to get moving now. And NO MORE OLD RETREADS!
That's exactly what Newt was. Hell, he isn't conservative either.
I think that Rom. made a mistake putting Ryan on the ticket. He assumed that the majority would agree that the economy was the biggest issue on everyone’s minds...
He forgot about the segment of the voting public that thought that BO’s evil smile and swagger were really cool.
Rubio may have been a better choice. He woulda brought in Fla. and a good segment of Hispanics.