LOL! No... if conservatives were the power we claim to be, there'd be no way the GOP could have "turned its back" on us.
The problem is that "conservatives" became lazy sloganeers and simply assumed that everybody agrees with us on everything, and we dismissed everybody who wasn't 100% on-board with us as RINOs.
We conservatives are responsible for our own losses. We have got some serious work to do cleaning up our own messes before we go off blaming other folks.
Maybe so. But he did not help matters for the party by doing his reach-across-the-aisle style and not listening to the conservative base. He was like a hapless bully victim who rarely fought back against the Dems instead of taking them on fiercely.
One thing about the Democrats. They don’t talk about a big tent strategy to attract moderates and conservatives. They can now proudly pursue a liberal agenda with this victory.