[Linda Frances]

but Obama completely surprised them when he won a landslide victory against their best candidate, Mitt Romney.

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Romney was not the best we had, he just managed to cheat, lie and steal his way to the nomination. Romney is the reason we lost. I think he worked undercover for the left. He certainly didn’t want to win.

What was it Cruz said about one of his debates?

“I’m pretty certain Mitt Romney actually French-kissed Barack Obama,” Cruz said in a speech at the Federalist Society’s annual conference Friday.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Part of the problem was the circular firing squad that formed about other, more reasonable conservatives who, however, all had various checkered swaths of time in their pasts. Baying for Mr. Perfect, they instead got Mr. Deep Deep Compromise.

[Taxman]

Open primaries hurt Republicans badly in 2008 and 2012.

If all 50 states had closed primaries, we probably would not have nominated either McCain or Romney.