The republicans need to win new voters by explaining conservatism to them, but instead they oppose conservatism and constantly fight and attack their base.
When a Reagan or a Palin, or a Cruz comes along who can fight for new voters and effectively deliver the conservative message, the GOP tries to kill them off, rather than try to help them bring in millions of new, formerly apathetic voting people.
The left fights hard to increase turn out for liberalism, and they are succeeding with many of the most ignorant and apathetic people in America, the GOP seems to fight to kill off interest in non-voting Americans.
Sometimes they make even my positions so boring and colorless, that they bore me.
The GOP seems to be threatened by energy and passion and enthusiasm, and their reaction is to kill it off before it can catch on.
The tea party is the movement that politics dreams of, the kind of thing that sweeps nations and changes everything, that changes the future, yet what has been the single, most dedicated goal of the GOP for the last 6 years, a desperate struggle to kill it.
Well said!