I think ‘unelectable’ really means ‘ghastly unthinkable’ to the big-gov types.
Everybody the gope-STAB has nominated has been unelectable and UNELECTED. W barely won his first term, and only had finish-the-war as his mandate by the time his second election rolled around.
Reagan LANDSLIDED. RINOs can hand-wring about ‘unelectable’ to their RAT friends across the aisle all day from here on out.
Reagan was a conservative politician but he had two other things going for him. 1980 and ‘84 were some of the last elections with a large number of voters from the WWII era of maturity. They had grown up with Reagan and others as film icons — they knew and recognized him as a solid individual.
He was an excellent communicator in the TV media sound byte — not the Cruz as an excellent debater can’t be one, but he hasn’t shown it yet.
The argument that if we have a pure conservative like Cruz being an equivalent of Reagan will give us a Reagan landslide automatically is a non sequitur.
I think we need another party for the purpose of nominating someone good when a GOPe candidate wins the Republican nomination.