[rightwingintelligentsia]

Let me get this straight. Akin and Mourdock, two Tea Party candidates, can't even win in Missouri and Indiana, both of which went for Romney by 10% margins, but you think a conservative Akin- or Mourdock-type candidate could have won the presidency.

Post of the thread.

Sorry, folks; I'm not into RINOs either, but if you think that a strictly Conservative candidate in the mold of Akin or Mourdock will win nationally with this media controlling the narrative and this dumbed-down electorate responding like trained seals to Democrat propaganda, you're living in a bubble.

[xzins]

You both totally miss the point.

It wasn’t Romney’s conservatism or lack thereof that lost.

He lost because he was too timid to step in and battle, especially on Benghazi, but also on the budget, on obamacare, and for the Hispanic vote.