“Build on our majority in 2014!! Retake the senate!! Be better prepared in 2016!!”
I don’t see it happening. Sure, give it a try. But I think we have to recognize that we as conservatives are up against a sea change in the culture let alone the politics.
The American electorate had a clear choice between a radical socialist and a moderate. The moderate, to his credit, ran a competent campaign. Sure, he could have done some things differently. The upshot though is that he ran on a platform of jobs and the electorate preferred a welfare check. Conservatism simply doesn’t win in that sort of environment.
Well, I can remember all that sea change b/s under Carter, too, and how we were told we’d just have to get used to it, because times have changed and this is the way it’s going to be from now on. Then came Reagan.