Greenbeard
Gold Member
I'm not saying the conservative ticket will win at the moment. That is not what I said at all. But, what I did say was that Romney is a liberal who tried to trick conservatives into believing he was "one of the good ole boys". He failed... he lost.
Romney's only good month, October, happened when he finally and abruptly pivoted away from pandering to his rabid base and etch-a-sketched his way to moderation before our very eyes in the first debate (leaving many observers, the President apparently included, slack-jawed in amazement). Yet the softening of his positions and rhetoric didn't drive away the rightwing base, it actually consolidated it because they finally felt like they were backing a winner.
If you want to run candidates who can't even try to credibly make that pivot back to the mainstream, then you're not even going to get as close as Romney got.