[McCloud-Strife]

Your plan really did not work out well in 2008 and 2012. Do you some sort of evidence that “next” time will have any different result whatsoever. The GOP has succumbed to the democrats. We now have two choices, soft left or hard left. Reagan’s 1964 prediction has come to pass. We’re the generation that lost freedom.

[zerosix]

You can lump 1996 with Bob Dole into that mix and probably 1992 as well when Bush I ran for a second term.

By that time, conservatives realized that they didn't get Reagan III in 1988, so they pitched him over for Clinton, thanks to Ross Perot!