"Yeah, only liberalism wins voters." I don't see how Republicans win ANY races, ANY time, ANY where given the pervasive ability of the Treason Media to paint the GOP as filled with Right Wing Christian zealots ready to start burning witches at any opportunity.
There is no real ideological competition today because the conservative alternative is painted in completely false and lurid colors by the Treason Media while liberalism is described as sweetness and light, truth and humanity, and decency itself.
"But you're not trying to move the party left or anything..." So you are blaming ME because no one more conservative than Guliani is able to even make it to the consciousness of the People? I wish there was one who could give him a little run for his money.
I'm responding to something you wrote. I asked if the party sucks this much. You responded that it didn't, but that "those who want to implement a more conservative policy clearly DO since they can't get anyone to follow them."
That would seem to suggest that you believe conservatives suck. And that only Rudy, the closest any serious GOP presidential candidate has come to being a true liberal purist, is capable of reaching voters.
It sounds as much like an indictment of conservatism itself as it is an indictment of the candidates. And it sounds like you believe the prescription is to be more like the liberal left.
I don't know if that's what you believe or not. But that's what it sounded like, based on the words in the post that I was responding to.
By the way, Romney absolutely can give him a run for his money. I don't know if Newt can or can't, but I know his voice in this race is desperately needed.
It's way too early to concede anything to anybody, and it's way too early to write anybody off.
Except Brownback. You can go ahead and write the obituary for his candidacy.