Nobody in FR and GOP want to address the Ron Paul voters. Changing rules and interferring in state primary where Ron Paul won delegates, and changing the rules for future primaries during the convention to make it even harder for Ron Paul voters to get delegates in state primaries pissed many of them off to the point they voted Third Party or stayed home. Other fraction GOP establishment marginalized was the Christian Coalition types. They were told to keep low key. Less people voted in 2012 compared to 2008 and even 2004. RINO are beholden to Chamber of Commerce and Free Traitors, thus spinning the loss on lack of Hispanic voters (ala Illegal Immigration Amnesty needed, more cheap labor for jobs that cannot be moved overseas) will fill the pockets of these business types and add another death knell to the middle class/Main Street GOP/America.
I agree. The Romney people made a big mistake by giving no role to Sarah Palin or other Tea Party types. And they clearly adopted rule changes that the yeas and nays on the floor opposed.
The Republican elite and snobs seems incapable of realizing that their pandering and their shabby treatment of many in the conservative base actually costs them more support than it gains.
They always think they can pander and add voters, but never can figure out that such bad strategies also involve substraction, and the substraction exceeds the addition.