You can't win by being more Democrat than the Democrats.
Everyone is busy talking about guts, about the Congress, and how the members should have grown spines, and now are falling all over each other to use the traditional party platform planks for a bonfire to try to be more liberal than the Democrats to try to win an election.
I guess " What profiteth a man to gain the whole world, yet lose his soul?" would be pretty well lost on the party faithful right now.
Dammit, people, stand for something. It was not standing for the things which got the Republicans elected that lost them the election!
It was not taking care of the Border, It was not being fiscally conservative, it was not shrinking government, it was NOT ending scandal and abuse of position, it was NOT putting an end to sexual improprieties, and ultimately, it was NOT fulfilling the "Contract with America" that got them NOT elected.
Watch the Dems. What did they do? They had the audacity to co-opt conservative positions on the issues while the Republicans were off swinging to the left. THEY got elected. DUH!
The center elects, so if the GOP swings a bit to the left, the swing vote comes back to them.
Not if the swing takes them off base and their normal support does not show.
The Democrats just kicked our asses by acting more Republican than the Republicans.
YOU beat the Republicans...the border is better taken care than ever, we are spending money BECAUSE WE'RE AT WAR, it's you that's making sex a political issue...what's more important, a politician who can run this country properly, or one who's faithful to his wife?
Americans just REJECTED your notion of conservatism...they WILL NOT elect a more conservative candidate.
Count on it.