The GOP is far from bottom unless it starts listening to the Gingrich, Palin and Romney types.
This horse shi# is exactly why we lost the election. There is no perfect candidate. As soon as we get this idea in our lame heads, we might have a chance. All three of these persons have some good ideas and some not so good. It is up to us to work with the good ideas and quit complaining about the ones you personally don't like. Keep up the internal crap and we will be out again.
You think listening to Palin would take it to the bottom? That seems to be the case as the other two assuredly would help us find the bottom in short order.
You aren't even close. They need to listen to the Reaganites, with serious concessions the conservative libertarians and the Buchananites. That is where the consensus IS, was, and always will be.
Gingrich, Palin, and Romney all represent divisive constituencies.