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Not to compare Romney to Reagan, but I seem to remember Reagan talking to the very conservative, the moderates, and the so-called “Reagan Democrats”. I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but pandering to only one group results in electoral defeat in most cases on the national level. The idea is to build a broad coalition of voters who either like you, or like you more than the other guy.

I agree.

Not to compare Romney to Reagan, but I seem to remember Reagan talking to the very conservative, the moderates, and the so-called “Reagan Democrats”.

You can't compare Reagan trying to deal with the public's knowledge that he was a famous right-winger, to a man who is famous among conservatives for being anti-Reagan and anti-conservative.

Not to compare Romney to Reagan, but I seem to remember Reagan talking to the very conservative, the moderates, and the so-called “Reagan Democrats”. I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but pandering to only one group results in electoral defeat in most cases on the national level. The idea is to build a broad coalition of voters who either like you, or like you more than the other guy.

Ronald Reagan had a core set of principles that he stood on and would not move from. Can you honestly say the same about Romney?

The choice between Romney and Obama is like a choice between a broken leg and lung cancer. Yeah, I'm going to choose the broken leg, but I'm not going to be happy about it and all things considered I'd rather not have either one. And I'm also not going to forget it and plan on making sure that in 2016 I'm not faced with the same kind of choice all over again. And the way to do that is to nominate an actual conservative for the presidency in 2016 and make Romney the first sitting president since Chester Arthur to be denied his party's nomination for re-election.

The idea is to build a broad coalition of voters who either like you, or like you more than the other guy.

Or who at least don’t hate your guts so much, they’ll suicide rather than let you win.

As I read the fevered anti-Romney screeds, it strikes me that some people would rather endure tyranny and the disintegration of America than even say something neutral about Romney.

Or maybe they are all clever agents provocateur hoping to either suppress the Romney vote so they can say:”Toldya” or to foment some sort of pathetic and futile Street Revolution.

I’ve been here since 2000, so I’ve seen this behavior, posted under different handles, before. The same sorts of accusations were made of W and of McCain, with the same gush of hatred. All by True Conservatives (tm): “We’ve got principles so it doesn’t matter if we lose!”