excuses are for losers. the GOP ran a crappy candidate and crappy campaign, that is why they lost...not Bob Barr for pity’s sake!
There are no excuses for anyone who refused to vote to defeat Obama.
Period.
As a conservative I did not like McCain. I voted for Ron Paul in the primary as a protest vote against him (Oregon was one of the last states to have primaries so I didn’t have much choice). I was seriously looking at third party candidates until McCain chose Sarah. I think that there were others who voted third party because they didn’t like McCain at all and Sarah wasn’t enough to save their votes.
The GOP needs to run conservatives in the next two elections.
“..excuses are for losers...”
if we are to ever get in the winners circle again, we had better examine carefully reason we have lost and correct them in the future.
Poor candidate is, of course, the primary reason, but don’t stop there. - try poor organization, no grass root efforts, ineffective RNC, etc.