Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we currently have the numbers to win national elections even with all those blocs. Sooner or later, we're gonna have to think about modifying our approach somehow, and since the social aspect of conservatism seemed to be about the only aspect that had a winning night last Tuesday, I highly recommend that we don't go all David Frum.
Of the four, business appears to have largely thrown its lot in with lawlessness, due to cheap labor from illegal immigration, never mind that McCain is one of their own on this; they didn’t turn out. Small government advocates are thoroughly disgusted, and rightly so, with the collossal increase in government, and government spending, and they didn’t turn out. That left defense hawks and social conservatives. Social conservatives, myself included, were less than lukewarm about John McCain, as he has always been about us, and only came to support the ticket with the addition of Sarah Palin for VP, but support her, and in turn McCain by default, we cetainly did. It wasn’t enough, sadly.
Does this mean there is something fundamentally wrong with the Republican coalition? I don’t think so. We’ve strayed from our own values, and put up a weak candidate for the presidency. And, we did it in an election season that was taylor made for Democrat gains.