You are correct. Even now, people are looking for the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan...and you are correct. Conservatives lost their power by not backing the one guy who could win....Mitt Romney.
As a result, we got the most liberal guy in the race.
You can thank the media and the conservatives.....
Being fractured only weakens conservatives.
Not true. There were three big liberals in the race, some were better in certain areas than others but they are all liberals.
Now, the RINOs who have been saying for the past year that conservatives have "had their foot on the neck" of the GOP for too long and didn't want abortion, homosexuality and the Second Amendment to be issues this time around have gotten EXACTLY what they were asking for.
You wanted a RINO, you got one. Sorry it couldn't be the RINO you were hoping for, but it was "his turn" and that's how RINOs do it.
(P.S. If you require links to where FRiberal RINOs have made such statements, I will be happy to provide them.)