Geroge H Bush blew his election chances ever before the election got started with "Read My Lips" and then he raised taxes. Ronald Reagan handed him the model to win by and he was to stupid to use it and ended being boxed in by his own actions which got his ticket punched by a gigolo governor with serious bad policy issues. So how did this imaginary conspiracy of purists blow that one for Mr. George H Bush?
You need to look around everyone who was there for those elections knows exactly how it went down. Newt had everything set up for Bob Dole. All he had to do was take the hand off and run 10 yards into the endzone for the TD. But he could not even do that right. Dole was running against Slick Willy Clinton that was scandal ridden and his only accomplishment was he was forced to sign a Republican welfare reform bill yet what did Dole do he fumbled over and over again. There was no conspiracy of purists busting Dole balls about not being conservative enough. He could not close the deal with the American Public pure and simple. We as conservatives were doing everything we could and he went out everyday and dropped the ball and found himself getting beat by a lying do nothing president. It was Dole who could not manage to get the independent vote.
It was not the conservatives that lost the election of 2008 it was John McCain. It was McCain that could not close the deal with the Independents or the American Public. McCain did everything he could to sink his own ship from not going after Obama on his Socialist past, his socialist ideas, disappearing for weeks on the campaign trail for a TARP vote, to endorsing Obama as a good president if elected. Tell me what conspiracy of purists made McCain blow his own election? If it wasn't for the Conservatives coming out and voting because of Sarah Palin it would have been a landslide defeat. So which is it dude a conspiracy of purists who cut him lose or a conspiracy of purists who showed up and tried to save his RINO butt? And by the way why could he not get the Independent votes because you can't get anymore Middle Of The Road than John McCain.
Wow you are so out of touch you didn't even read what you have posted. You the one accusing others for your own failure to get a RINOs elected. You are the one going after conservatives. It is you using inflammatory accusations of your strawman of conservatives causing all your problems which is just that a lame attempt at a rewrite of the history of RINO political failures and to cover your ass for throwing away your principles and being pissed because others want join you this time around in selling out their core beliefs and principles. This conspiracy theory of purists of yours that forced you to lose elections is just imaginary lie. It is nothing more than a bogus attempt to smear conservatives for RINO loses and nothing else.
The question is “Is Mitt Becomimg More Conservative” and the answer is NO! Why try to pretend to make Mitt out to be something he is not. It only sows more distrust among the electorate. He records are out there and can not be disputed. Nothing said at that convention changes in any way who Mitt Romney is and the way he wants to run the country if elected. At least be honest about it.
Do you really think Mitt is sitting on the bus going “Wow those Tea Party people makes some good points we need to completely change my whole ideological core approach to this election.” Or Do you think he is going to stick to what he has been doing his whole career and took money for and made promises for to get that money. Yeah it was nice to see some Tea Party stuff and some lip service but it is still Mitt Romney's political campaign, his stance on issues, and his character that the American public will making up their minds on who to vote for on election day and not what somebody from a Tea Party point of view said during the GOP convention and not his VP choice. It will be all about Romney and who he is. And that is the whole point now in Mitt being elected or not.