I agree with most of what you say, although I’m not sure that Romney was anymore liberal than Nixon. Nixon was a huge government type of guy, and as for his social views, we do know that just as Romney had a state Supreme Court jam gay marriage down his throat, Nixon had the Supreme Court of the US jam abortion down his throat, and did nothing about it. In fact, apparently from what can be found about his views, he thought that abortion should have been legal for rape, incest, etc. The problem with Reagan is that a whole generation of voters has now grown up not knowing the truth about him, and the last two GOP presidents were horrible at explaining conservatism, either because they were embarrassed by it, or just didn’t care enough to explain it to uninformed voters that now get their political views from the NEA and John Stewart. In the short term we are screwed as conservatives, unless we get a Palin or West as VP, who can spend their terms teaching the country the truth. So as you can see, I don’t know the solution to our problems, but all people have been doing on FR and everywhere else for the last year is firing friendly fire at each other, and until that stops we can’t find any solutions, can we?
The only reason we even got Palin as V.P. was because McCain was suffering in the polls. People need to get that the only way to help conservatives is for Romney to keep doing as poorly as possible in the polls, in the remaining primaries, in fundraising, and in any way the base can fight him. This whole idea that “we need to rally around the nominee” is pure propaganda. We’re seeing before our very eyes how all those dictatorial countries control their populations by controlling the media, except we’re seeing it working within the specific Republican bloc, who is mindlessly buying everything their great party leaders put out through their “friendly” media.