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We’ve had plenty of these discussions since the last election, but here’s my take on it:

Romney lost because he was a lousy strategist. He thought he could turn to the left, pick up some moderate to liberal voters and still keep the social conservatives.

He failed in both areas. He lost the social conservatives.

The moderate to liberals went for the hard core liberal Barack Obama rather than the on-again/off-again liberal, Mitt Romney.

His loss is entirely on his own failed strategy.

I agree Romney was a terrible candidate and ran a terrible campaign. I've been accused by others on this thread of proposing no strategy. That is rich; somehow, I'm supposed to answer the collapse of our nation and the socialist coup we are now operating under in a few sentences on a discussion forum before the SHOUTERS on the thread will be content. For what it's worth, I did answer in post 61 what would be needed if, by some miracle, we are to survive the next election, assuming there will be a next election.

But back to Romney's campaign; it's hard to blame him alone when Soros spent "gazillions" several election cycles ago to manipulate elections and enable what amounts to election fraud. And that is only the tip of the iceberg of the long-term planning and in-depth strategies the left is so excellent at, while the so-called right sits in stunned silence wondering why people don't hear their thoughts or admire their good intentions.

I am not saying conservatives should adopt the left's strategies. But I am saying that conservatives have been using horrible strategies, or no strategies, wishful thinking, avoidance and naiveté, and now constitutional conservatism is inches from extinction. That, and given that the constitutionalists are so far gone that the media and the Democrat party has determined who will be the Republican presidential nominee in the past two elections, it's hardly fair to say the fault is Romney's "entirely", regardless of his manifold, lamentable failures.

I cannot even agree with whomever posted above that if a real conservative could run, he or she would get elected. Things have come down to a majority-rule by the corrupt and the low-info's. There is no hope but evangelization and a strategy for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, because the rot and the strategic change the left has already accompished by legalizing outlaws, selectively enforcing laws, ignoring other laws, and building a permanent Democrat majority is so deep our system now cannot recover, and the idealized "past" conservatives are hoping to return to is not only unknown to the majority of voting-age people in this country; it has already been identified as a positive evil, and they believe it. Even the Republicans are now Democrats; and the Democrats are Communists, and the Communists are anarchists. It's lost, people. There is now no hope but to rebuild from scratch for future generations.

We’ve had plenty of these discussions since the last election, but here’s my take on it:
Romney lost because he was a lousy strategist. He thought he could turn to the left, pick up some moderate to liberal voters and still keep the social conservatives.

He failed in both areas. He lost the social conservatives.
The moderate to liberals went for the hard core liberal Barack Obama rather than the on-again/off-again liberal, Mitt Romney.
His loss is entirely on his own failed strategy.

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Agreed. Well said.