If Willard had won ? We’d get shamnesty, federal spending would still be sky high and they’d be attempting to “manage” ZeroCare rather than kill it dead. The GOP would be headed towards dramatic losses in this year’s election (losing the House at the minimum, dropping to 40 or fewer Senate seats, loss of 10 Governorships). Hillary measuring the drapes for 2016. Pretty much a complete RINO fiasco.
Well put,
That is pretty much the vision that I saw too.
Bush had ‘national security’ to keep many Republicans with him to the end, even though by 2008 the GOP polled lower than Dems on both that and taxes.
But what base supporters would Romney have had last year as he made deals with Dems (as Bush did in 2008) and tried to get GOP House to pass them? I think even less than GWB did in 2008.
It would have been very ugly as you articulate above.