-—— actually, the majority of the voting base of the Republican party.——
There is one small problem with that statement. Leaving out Paul, and maybe he can actually be included, the majority of the primary voting base voted for Romney. That is, the combined votes for all the other significant candidates was not adequate to win.
(2) In the later primaries where nobody but Romney had the funds to run, the Romney supporters and Democrats voted for Romney anyway ~
We had a well financed minority insurgency capture the nomination without actually demonstrating they were able to represent the interests of the coalition partners.
In European politics, where the coalition politics takes place after the elections, not before them (as in America), what that would mean is a short-lived "Government" (or ruling clique) with a good chance of falling due to a lack of confidence over some quite mundane issues!
You people worked yourself into a quite unstable situation which will allow the most unpopular President of the last two centuries to win another term ~ your fault ~ not mine ~ no way this can be rectified either!