So, are you saying if we would have just ran your pro-abortion candidate we would have won? Yeah, right.
No I’m not. If we had a candidate with a record as a government minimalist, with a record against taxes, with a record against constitutional expansionism, he would have won. Each of those is a severe weakness of Obama’s, but there is no one in the GOP today with a strong record on those. None of the state anti-abortion initiatives won and the social issues debate moves us onto the legalistic turf of our opposition where you can have a draw but no victory.