” Clearly, people didn’t vote pro-life if Obama won.”
You are right. However, you are wrong to say that if our candidate was pro abortion, he’d get more votes. People were not voting significantly on the issue.
I don’t know what they were voting on. Theories range from freebies, to vote fraud, to “likeability.” But whatever was decisive, it wasn’t abortion. No change on that front is going to help us.
You’re misreading me. I never said we should have a pro-abortion candidate. I wouldn’t support one. The issue is the message and appearances. The media have painted conservatives into a caricature of our real selves. You don’t beat them by talking about rape being of God or of His purpose or a legitimate rape (what about the illegitimate rapes?).
Don’t you see how the message/messenger is trapped? Instead use a gentler, softer message to get to the same place. It’s obvious that a baby is a baby at what point during the pregnancy to say 70% of likely voters? That number then is the key to electoral victory. Figure out that message and use it.
Romeny’s message didn’t sway enough voters and some analysis show that if he just won an additional 330K voters in key swing states he’d have won the Presidency.
Akin and Mourdock lost in states that Romney won. Conservatives, pro-life conservatives, cannot be election zombies. We have to craft a message that the voters accept, support and understand. If not we lose.