[jjotto]

You might be right. Conservatives in America may be as irrelevant as conservatives in Europe. We’re all socialists now.

Just don’t expect conservatives to support the socialist lite Republicans. Romney 2012 may be the high point fro Republicans!

[BroJoeK]

jjotto: "Just don’t expect conservatives to support the socialist lite Republicans.
Romney 2012 may be the high point fro Republicans!"

Republican high points were:

• 1956 Eisenhower 57%
  
• 1972 Nixon 61%
  
• 1984 Reagan 59%
  
• 2004 Bush II 51%

It's also worth noting that in 160 years -- 40 presidential elections, 20 victories -- only Ronald Reagan has defeated an incumbent Democrat running for reelection.
So on historical grounds alone, Romney was up against stiff odds.

But I would certainly agree with you that we need more conservative candidates, which Romney obviously was not -- he is an "I was bi-partisan with a majority Democrat Massachusetts legislature" kind of guy.

So where the heck were the conservatives?
Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich?
These guys were conservative? Not!

So maybe next time we'll have better choices, but the primaries, not the general election, are where to make those choices.