The country has changed. Conservatives can not run the same sort of campaigns that they did in the past. At some point the Republican party is going to need to jettinson the hard right ideologues holding it captive on abortion/contraception, gays, race, immigration, tax policy, etc.
That process will be painful for the party but entertaining to watch and quite necessary. Just as Clinton turned the Democrats right to win elections someone will need to turn the Republicans slightly to the left.
There will be a lot of conservatives attacking Romney over the next few months (years?) but once they get that vitriol out of their system the smarter ones will sit down to analyze how and why they've lost 4 out of the last 6 presidential elections. This can only be good for the country.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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