No, I mean Gingrich would have lost Houston-Astros bad. Jacksonville-Jaguars bad. Custer-at-Little-Big-Horn bad. I mean bad.
A loss is a loss. Little or big, it doesn’t matter.
The strategy you are advocating is that we need to stick with people like Romney, who have low negatives and can appeal to swing voters.
That’s a losing strategy. It didn’t work for Romney, McCain or Bob Dole. Since that strategy doesn’t work, let’s stop doing it.
Nobody knows if Gingrich would have lost—it’s all just speculation at this point. What we do know as a fact, is that Romney lost; that when the GOP runs moderate candidates with low negatives they lose—every...single...time.