I do not think the candidates were the problem
The problem is that the GOP wastes too much time trying to be Moderate Liberals, and not strong conservatives
The GOP needs to dump the liberalism. You are not going to win Hispanic votes by supporting Illegal Alien Amnesty. You are not going to win conservative/moderate Midwest working-class by pushing Free Trade with Communist China and NAFTA/EU for North America. You are not going to win attacking your conservative base for bringing up Obama Eligibility/Birth Certificate. You are not going to win votes by attacking your conservative base. You are not going to win if you think Fox News and the GOP Media are “conservative”
The PhonyCon Liberal GOP Agenda has won two Presidential elections since 1988...and only one popular vote. It is a loser
Beautifully summarized but it will be ignored.
I don’t think a more conservative candidate would have done any better than mitt. Those people who vote for Obama, those non extreme leftists who voted for him, would not have wanted someone who would be characterized even more as Against Women, Latinos, and Gays.
I think the only way to beat these dems with their mocking Alinskyism, which works like a freaking charm on the pop cultured, insecure psyches of Americans, would be a Truth and freedom Party in which they use quick sound bites of true freedom, economic and personal. Showing how all our liberty is traced back to the constitution and showing how living and governing constitutionally will help ALL AMERICANS. Yes, it will help hippies, commies, black, purple, green, religious people, wiccans, transgenders, bikers, country folk, city dwellers, wealthy people, poor people.
We need a party who can educate the populace like Rush Limbaugh does. Who can explain economics and why lower taxes brings MORE REVENUE. Why giving handouts weakens people rather than strengthens.
Right now, Americans only know jokes about how rich Romney is, and how funny his religious undergarments. The public buys every joke on SNL as real news. They are as ignorant as mud dwellers. We need to be a party of teaching. And we need to be more accepting of the different groups, while exhorting people to forget about groups, but to all be AMERICANS.