Well, some of us yahoos realized Romney wasn’t a strong enough candidate to begin with. We lost the election the moment people believed the lie that Romney was the only possible chance to win. If liberal is the only way to win, we’ve already lost.
For years I’ve been saying that picking a liberal like Romney was the surest way to a loss because he’s not a conservative and can’t run on or defend conservative principles. Romney proved that assessment to be 100% correct.
Reagan was proof that friends of Romney, the GOPe, RINO liberals’ belief that conservatives would never win were indeed lies and anyone falling for them should consider themselves deceived.
Well, I don’t disagree with you per se, but there is no way any of the GOP candidates could have won with the electorate that turned out this month. Not Pawlenty, not Santorum, not Gingrich, not Perry, none of them. Yes, if we had someone who projected some combination of cool conservatism, perhaps. But the reason the GOP lost was mostly due to Dem turnout issues and some demographic issues. In the future, we have to play their game as well. Go to our key GOP constituencies and turn them out in as high a numbers. Evangelical churches, for one. Turnout should be 100% for at these churches to counter the 100% turnout in black precincts. Etc.