In fact, many conservatives have been kicked to the curb by the electorate, sometimes gleefully. The chronic inability of some conservatives to believe that the general electorate can look at them and come to (rational or irrational) conclusion that they suck is a serious problem.
The denial about this country’s shift to the center amongst many here is positively frightening.
Illegal immigration and free trade is killing the GOP. Get on the right side of these two issues and the blue collar Reagan Democrats will come back to the GOP. Reagan Dems get it, win on conservative issues mean nothing if the GOP support corporate offshoring of jobs, illegal immigrants taking jobs and H-1B workers depressing wages of tech workers that puts them out of a job. Hard to be conservative when you can’t keep your job and feed your family. I wish human cloning was not illegal, because I would like to clone Ronald Reagan.