Effective as what? Your last election strategy?
I'd write and ask both Romney and McCain for refunds of my campaign donations if I thought my letters would have any effect at all.
Is it too much to ask the GOP to nominate candidates who actually want to become President? I now really doubt that either candidate wanted the job.
No, effective like backing off the Benghazi debacle right when the correct response was doubling down.
Losers lose. Why look to Romney for a winning political strategy. He punched below his weight during the election.
Romneycare's election strategy was to keep conservatives out of the White House and Bathhouse Barry in it. It was a resounding success.