Will universal appeal stop moderate Republicans like Jindal, Christie and Rubio from being nominated?

Jindal isn't a moderate, he favors creationism in schools under the misnomer "intelligent design" and has gutted the budget of Louisiana. Rubio is a strawman puppet that says what polls well to be a token hispanic nominee. Christie is too intellectually honest to the needs of his New Jersey constituency to ever be nominated for a national ticket... and if he thinks the GOP will reward him for that he won't make it past New Hampshire.

Romney lost the election because his campaign ran a TV ad concentrated 1980s Atwater smear campaign and Plouffe and Axelrod manipulated the electoral college to focus on increasing turnout in Democratic leaning counties in the ten battleground states. Republicans didn't reach out to the youth vote and totally misunderstand the hispanic electorate (gay marriage and abortion don't mean anything to Catholics if you have to live in poverty working minimum wage jobs and don't get treated like a native of your country when you're third or fourth generation solely because of your race while all people talk about is a deportation policy to send your grandmother back to a crime ridden backwater h*llhole even though she'll never taken anyone's job), so Obama got enough of their votes to overcome Republican turnout in swing states. He also maximized black turnout in urban areas like Philadelphia and Ohio cities to overcome the GOP groundgame there.

Republicans need to learn to talk to people correctly, realize no one wants to live in a religious fascist state to appease the racism of anti-intellectual Southerners still fighting the Civil War, and come up with a different approach than "cut taxes/there's an enemy out to get us" simply because Reagan did that in the 1980s when the top marginal tax rate was 70% (he cut it to 50% in 1982 btw, a good 12.5% higher than what Clinton had it and what Obama wants to take it back to) and comparing some amorphous Islamic threat to an arms race with the Soviet Union. Most Americans don't know an Alawite Ba'athist from a Tajik Peshmurga Sufi, and to imply that the entire Islamic community is supportive of the Qutbist Sunnis originating from our "allies" in Saudi Arabia and Egypt is dependent on making sure the Northern Alliance Pashtun Peshmurga runs a narcotic government in Kabul instead of the Taliban is going to cost a lot of money and lives for really different reasons.

If the GOP would recruit people who actually understood business operations to run for office instead of people auditioning for book signing while playing the victim or a spot on Fox News after getting some geography wrong they might do OK. All the mishandling of Romney's campaign did was lead the radicals to think they haven't misinterpreted the country as a whole enough instead of trying to inform people why economic growth is necessary and the actual policies that would cause it instead of going off a fourth graders impression of the Laffer Curve.

John McCain and Mitt Romney were moderates with "universal" appeal too. And George Bush's "compassionate conservatism" was meant to appeal to a broader base. How did that work out?

Obama is somewhat of an anomaly. Almost no other candidate could have sky high unemployment, record deficits, record debt, world wide turmoil, a record number of people on food stamps, higher taxes, lower wages, etc etc etc... and be re-elected. The Republicans need to articulate their message, expect to be demonized at every turn, and let the people decide. If the people want to be like Greece they will get what they want.

I don't think Romney's problem was an issue with credibility...I think it was one of railroading through pathetic media hacking of which caused the dumb voters to follow the sheep!

Ron Paul can run all he wants but he doesn't represent the conservatism.

I'm curious to see how Obama continues to...oh I see...can't blame Bush anymore...lets just blame the GOP in general. When will you understand that the administration has put twice the amount of money out there and not fixed anything.

Likewise the current administration wants to sway the blind by saying now it's the GOP in general. Hmmm...I'm not sure where the GOP holds a real majority over anything other than the House. The Senate and President hold the Democrat majority and STILL can't get things done!

You can rest assured the GOP will choose a "Minority" next time around and will throw Billions behind him to get their anti minority, poor hating agenda through. You can rest assured.

It will most likely be Bobby Jindal or Marco Rubio. Watch Rubio. Dude is nasty and extremely power thirsty now. He wants the White House and will do and say anything to get it.

It doesn't matter.

One of these 2 things will happen:

1) Democrats win in 2016

2) Somehow Ron Paul gets nomination and wins in 2016 easily

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Marco Rubio is not a moderate.

we had Romney this time we want a real Republican no more wussies