Well I guess it depends how you look at it. I see that millions of Republicans stayed home because they won't vote for RINOs. The Republican Party should have learned that lesson in past elections.
Hopefully, they finally have after the disgraceful behavior of the majority Republican house and Senate since 2014.
The Republicans need to understand that they cannot win without the conservative base. Let them just try to run Jeb Bush and see what happens.
That’s my point. The dems will fight amongst themselves until election day when they will coalesce behind the party’s candidate because they understand principle is nice, but power and control is better.
Republicans on the other hand stand on principle and then after losing bemoan the fact they can’t win the WH.
We can debate principle versus cutting off your nose to spite you face all day, but the facts are the winning party dictates national policy and nominates judges not principled losers.
Yes we will because regardless of why they stayed home the result was four more years of Obama. I admire people of principle and consider myself to be one. However when talking political power and national interest there IS often a lesser evil. I always vote for the most conservative candidate in the primary, but if that person doesn’t turn out to be the candidate then I fall back on the Bill Buckley admonishment to always vote for the most conservative candidate available. Romney was not my first choice in 2012, but he was clearly a better choice for the country than four more years of Obama. That is pragmatism and in the real world of political policy pragmatism rules. But we can agree to disagree on that and still be civil.