Who was responsible for nominating Mitt Romney and John McCain for president. Are you going to try and pin them on social conservatives too?
Mitt Romney had himself a crackpot moment with his 47% comment, matching those three.
My point is to learn the right lesson from those, SOcons should be the first ones enraged at those others as they made the movement look like nutbags and they should not want a repeat of it.
Romney got nominated for one reason only.....the conservatives had no unity. Romney did not break 30% until his nomination became inevitable. If either Ricky or Newty dropped out, Romney loses the nomination.
Now describes too many modern "conservatives." There's nothing but endless whining and spawning of conspiracy theories all to disclaim any part in a failure whether it's who gets nominated or when of their 'chosen', like Akin, is soundly defeated. In both the McCain and Romney nomination cases, conservatives had four years to produce a 'champion', their alternative to the likely nominee. It didn't happen and in the case of 2012, it was like the keystone cops ... every month there was a new choice people ran to.
Here's the thing, once again there's no GOP incumbent... these nominating elections happen EVERY FOUR YEARS. Start recruiting NOW.
I can tell you now: if Santorum's the next nominee, he will lose and "conservatives" who were so enraptured by him this past cycle will be born again critics and finally see him as he really is.