The only way the Republican party is going to start winning presidential elections again is that they moderate heavily, both socially and economically. Fortunately for us, they still think that they lost in 2008 and 2006 because they weren't conservative enough, and if they'd just get back to their values (whatever those are) they'd really energize that base and start winning elections again.
People like Huntsman and Crist understand this, and that's why they're not going to be the candidate in 2012.
Another person feeding us the talking points and not reading through the thread.
Huntsman really didn't even say that we have to moderate. We have to take a "second look" at gay rights and the environment (and many of us already agree with that).
By the way, to some of you, our crushing defeats were because we were too conservative. This is just as ridiculous as the idea that we weren't conservative enough. This party lost in 2006 because of an unpopular war (maybe a slight rejection of the relatively new conservative ideological position on foreign affairs) and in 2008 because of an economic crisis. I wish people would stop feeding into this myth that we lost because we're "far right" epecially on social issues...when nobody really cared about those issues in either year.
