Dole... McCain... Romney...
Unfortunately there is a good deal of evidence that a more conservative candidate would have performed worse.
What you are saying is a variant of the old saw, “We just aren’t presenting our case well.”
I wish conservatives would give some thought to whether the problem is the message, not the messenger.
I happen to agree, in general, with the conservative message. But it’s clear to me that more and more Americans don’t. Doubling down on it may be the right thing to do, but it isn’t likely to win elections.
I don’t think they interpret anything, they just want to move left, period.
They didn’t ‘settle’ on Romney, they wanted Romney, the William Weld republican was the guy that they wanted instead of anyone to his right.
GW Bush was about as much a RINO as Romney, and he won twice. Reagan was a solid conservative and he won twice. You can’t discount the political skills of the candidate and his strategists.
Good questions...
First...there needs to be a purging of, not only the GOP leadership and the Liberal RINO elite...there needs to be a purging of the GOP Media (which is just as Liberal RINO). Since the 1992 election (when conservative talk radio started booming nationally), the GOP has won the overall popular vote in the Presidential election ONCE....and only twice have they won the Presidency. Except for Rush Limbaugh...the majority of the “conservative” talk radio crowd are more concerned with getting RINO guests from Fox News for their shows while not supporting the Conservative movement. And, do you really think not discussing Obama Eligibility helped Romney?
Second...its time to realize the GOP is not going to beat the Democrats by being Liberal or “Hispanic”. In fact, if the GOP really wants to win nationally....dump the Free Trade Globalism. Free Trade is the province of Chinese Communists and European Socialists...and US Liberals. You cannot beat the DNC with their own Socialism...and you will not win Midwestern states by taking their jobs away. Obama beat Romney by hammering away on his alleged outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries. Economic theory cannot hide economic fact: Free Trade does not work...economically or politically
Third.....blame really should not be placed on Romney nor Ryan. They ran as good as a campaign as possible. Probably the most stupid comment made these past few hours was “shoulda had Rubio instead of Ryan as VP”. Yeah, right, replacing a good conservative with an Illegal Alien Amnesty Hispanic would have won the Presidency
Its time to do something different. The Liberal RINO nonsense does not work. And, Jeb Bush would be a 57 state disaster as a candidate
I am too F’ed up this morning to make rational decisions, but right now I believe last night I became an Independent.
There is no GOP only a Middle of the line Democrat party posing as the GOP.
F them and the Democrats.
when we stop electing rinos