"This election has clearly shown conservatism alone cannot win elections"
WRONG...
This election HAS shown that conservatism wins, WHEN YOU USE IT, and are able to get your message out above the din of a leftist media...
We have been fighting against a 24/7 propoganda machine for 6 years now, that has been willing to use everything out of the Gebbell's playbook, from hatred and racism, to outright LIES to attack us, regardless of the cost in AMERICAN LIVES it has created...
We took for granted that the American sheeple were smart enough to figure it out, when we should have been COUNTER-CAMPAIGNING from the very beginning....
Conservatism + alliance with Libertarians + moderates is needed. While Conservatives easily win in the south, even in the once solid west they are finding it tough. Demographics is changing a lot of things, Republicans have to get pragmatic.