I believe that any of those three would have fired up the base. They may or may not have inspired as many conservatives as Palin, but they probably would have had a greater appeal to independents and some democrats. Cantor probably would have locked down Virginia and Florida and maybe a few others. "
We don't want to inspire democRATS, we want to inspire conservatives.
A lot of people here love Rick Santorum. Santorum campaigned for Spector and let Toomey out in the cold. ...Then Santorum went down.
But, but, BUT!
We can ONLY win by appealing to the squishy, to the weather vanes who follow the wind, the amoral with no sense of right and wrong, in a word “centrists”...
angry sputtering gop apologist mode = off
Really? Reagan inspired a lot of democrats and won landslide elections because of it.