I have to disagree, the reason we got 8 years of slick willie is because social conservatives voted for Perot or stayed home. I hope this will not happen again,but it could. All you have to do is read one thread to note the Buchanan reactionaries coming out in droves. Most Conservatives will not go off the reservation because they are not one issue voters,but there are enough one issue people to screw up the whole thing. They will not only shoot themselves in the foot,they will shoot us in both feet.
Again, not true.
two branches of conservatives stayed home.
1) Social conservatives
2) Fiscal conservatives (remember the tax increase?)
Also count that part of the reason Reagan and Bush 41 won was because Democrats crossed aisles. Clinton pretended to be conservative, he was a southerner. They went back home.
All these were the reasons for the loss in '92, and responsibility was not only on the heads of one branch of the conservative base.