Romney lost because he could not articulate any conservative message, mostly because such would be a foreign language for him. The same problem sunk McCain, damaged Bush severely in 2000 and 2004, sunk Dole, sunk Bush I, and sunk Ford.
Crony corruption is not free-market capitalism; it is not "severely conservative"; it does not appeal to the 80% of Republican voters who rejected Romney throughout the primaries; and it is not part of the Republican Party Platform.
The bigger worry for many party leaders is the growing rift between business-oriented Republicans and the GOP’s more ideological wing.
Constitutional conservatives are all for business-oriented, free market, common sense economic policies that are good for all businesses, large and small, and good for individuals of all sizes, shapes, and colors.
One could argue that the Democrats have STRUCTURAL advantages over the Republican Party. Only once since 1992 have the Republicans one the popular vote in a presidential election (2004). I do agree the Dems cheat extensively. Because the Dem vote is EXTREMELY concentrated in one-party urban areas, they have ample opportunities pad their vote and engage in other forms of voter fraud. That all said, it is changing DEMOGRAPHICS that is giving the Dems their biggest advantage. Romney won close to 60% of the white vote in 2012, but was annihilated among the nonwhite vote-—primarily blacks, hispanics, and Asians. If you could somehow factor out Jewish, gay, and union voters from the white voting base, Republicans typically get anywhere from 65 to 75% of the white vote in any given presidential election. It used to be you could predict the outcome of presidential election on “the economy, stupid” to quote a well known Democrat strategist. No more. With the decreasing size of the white vote and the increasing number of people dependent on government programs as well as the decreasing number of taxpayers-—fully 90 million working age Americans don’t even work anymore——we can now say it’s the demographics, and the dependency, stupid.
Business thrives, capitalism thrives, in a Constitutional Republic.
Why these people won’t give up their failing greed, using their capital to manipulate and ruin a functioning system has to do with a non intelligent behavior model.
When you list all the fence-sitting republicans and how much struggle they caused, it is clear to anyone paying attention.
You are right. And the GOPe doesn’t see it. They lie to themselves. They think they can continue fooling people into pretending they are not leading a double purpose.
But they can’t serve unhealthy greedy tangential interpretation of capitalism while only saying that the are for particular or any aspects of the Constitution.
The gig is up.
The emotional reaction to all of their failure, neglect and fraternization with the opposition is not taken into account.
The answer to the problem is so simple that whoever takes it on will have success and will confound to the point of anger (to put it mildly) all these guys who are not in it for the right reasons.