even with Romney, we’d still have a fighting chance.
No, open borders destroys the country. We had to get a party that stood for border protection. That wouldn’t happen without the GOP being fundamentally transformed at the top, starting with the defeat of the Bush-McCain-Romneyites.
If there really was a viable alternative in 2012, I’d agree, but nobody else was going to get more than 1-2%. And it’s not as if those candidates were anything to write home about, neither.