are they figments of your imagination?
If you genuinely feel that "reasonably eloquent fiscal and social conservatives" with enough simple, stick-stone-bone common sense NOT to uncontrollably piddle all over the inviolable Rule One of electoral politics are (your words) "figments of [my] imagination": small wonder, then, that the fumbling inherent in the GOP approach -- working from precisely that baseline premise -- has been one of such wretched, abject failure. Two (TWO!) losses to a serial adulterer and rapist; two (TWO!) losses, thereafter, to an open and unapologetic socialist.
Your (now) thrice-repeated attempt to steer discussion away from the epic disaster that was the GOP's lunatic, bucktoothed folles du Mittens -- and towards any other Republican and/or conservative actually NOT ultimately responsible for wholly and utterly botching the race against the Hugo Chavez of Chicago, with real unemployment whipsawing between 18-and-22% -- is noted, and (quite properly) disdained. Pointing a quivering, accusatory finger at Bachmann, or Perry, or Palin, or whomever-have-you does absolutely jack-all to mitigate the sheer, Krakatoan magnitude of the resulting shockwave from the entirely forseeable (and forseen) GOP/Mittens combination anti-Tea Party tantrum and electoral hari kari.
The GOP's problem, and yours, is a sweaty, desperate desire to "win," without ever once having to properly engage with either conservatives or conservatism. Have fun with that, by all means.
First of all, I'm not a Republican, I am and always have been a registered Independent. You keep spinning, but you fail to put forth names of real conservatives that you believe could have won an election against Obama or one who will be capable of beating Hillary or whatever leftist twit the dims put forth in 2016. Why? .