Your analysis is spot on, but this electoral debacle wasn’t caused by Morris’s failure to foresee it. The problem was caused by the strategic delusion that if both parties ran liberals, the public would prefer the Republican liberal.
If given the opportunity, guys like Rove will do it again in 2016.
“If given the opportunity, guys like Rove will do it again in 2016.”
How the hell Romney got out of the primary I will never know. The primary electorate was, I thought, solidly conservative so Romney had no business winning it. The only explanation I have is that people got scared and thought “we don’t want to look extreme”. Well damn it that’s the second time we did that and the second time it failed. McCain was the “safe” choice as well and look where that got us.
Next time, conservatives need to slap on some b**ls before voting in the primaries.