Maybe the party should consider why it didn't carry a single Northeastern or West Coast state in 2004, regions which were once reliably Republican. Perhaps we should listen to voters for a change, rather than try to impose our social agenda on them. Whatever their faults, people like Schwarzenegger, Romney and Guiliani managed to win in strongly Democrat electorates. Maybe we could learn someting from them. Clearly, if we repeat our 2006 performance, the 2008 election will be a Democrat sweep.
I don't know squat about Romney, except that we won two landslides in the second most Democrat state in the nation and he is a refreshing change stylistically from Bush.