So how does losing elections help advance conservative values? The absolute minimum job requirement for a candidate is to get himself elected. If they can't accomplish this one task, the rest of their conservative bonafides aren't worth a pot of piss.
Maybe you should direct that question to Mitt Romney, John McCain and the RNC. Not advocating conservative values appears to be more of a loser than advocating them.
Given the choice, social liberals vote for the genuine article, seems to me. They don't believe a Republican who is liberal on social issues any more than social conservative Republicans do.
It is NOT the conservatism that cost us the election, it is the lack of it.
Do you believe the Pro-Life Hispanics or Pro-Marriage Blacks, in the Republican party will continue to support a party that abandons those values?
In fact the 3 million Republicans who voted for McCain, claim they stayed home precisely because Romney wasn’t conservative enough.
(Just in case you hadn’t noticed that sentiment expressed on this site)