The last two to blame are Romney and Ryan. They ran as best a campaign as possible.
First...Reince Priebus needs to turn in his resignation, this morning. As head of the RNC, he managed to not only lose the Presidential election AND lose -1 senate seats when the Dems had 22 running for re-election...he got punked by the Brillo-Head Debbie Wasserman-Schulz. That is not leadership...that is weakness
Second...its time to stop giving the Tea Party a pass. They brought us Mourdock and sandbagged Akin (remember they were upset when their insider Sarah Steelman finished third in the primary). Oh, and Sarah Palin trying to run a Third Party candidate to sandbag Akin...all over a comment he repeatedly apologized for.
I am sorry...it is time for the Real Conservatives and Social Conservatives to re-assume the Conservative leadership of the GOP....you cannot build a base based on the rantings of a moderate business wonk on a liberal NBC-owned business channel....nor build a conservative base that cowers to the Liberal Media every time a GOP candidate offends someone
And, the absolute stupidity of trying to push Marco Rubio as some Conservative wunderkind....why do you think CNN and MSNBC keep pushing him to run for higher office?
Its time to stop pushing Liberal-Lite as an alternative to the DNC. Only a Real, Social Conservative that energizes the base can beat a DNC liberal
The first one to blame is ALWAYS the candidate. His SOLE job is to earn votes, when he doesn’t he failed. There might be extenuating circumstances, but the job is the job, and the situation isn’t that much different than Bush faced and he won. It was a winnable election, there was no LBJ dragging Kennedy’s corpse around, Romney faced an unpopular president with an unpopular agenda that lost 10 million votes in 4 years, Romney lost. That’s on him. You might argue what he screwed up, but he definitely screwed up.