My name is 50sDad: I voted for Ross Perot, and helped elect eight years of a sniggering, arrogant, smug, Leftist Liberal smart@$$.
You voted for who you felt was the best candidate. That is all any of us can do. It wasn’t a RP problem but a weak leadership by the Republican Party IMO. If you are connecting with the public no one is going to take your base away.