This is the reason for the Republican collapse in a nutshell: Rockefeller Republicans want to compromise with socialism, while religious conservatives want to ignore capitalism in order to focus on their religious agenda.
I would expand on this in that the religious conservatives acted with a self defeating narrowmindedness in rejecting Romney because of his religion. I heard countless callers to talk shows display a rank bigotry towards Romney directed towards his Mormon faith, while totally supporting Huckabee simply because he was a Southern Baptist. The result was McCain. I don’t blame Moderates for supporting the Mav. I place it on the single issue religious folk, who are the Republican version of the rabid Pro-Abortion crowd. Palin energized McCains campaign pure and simple, but the Repubs who call themselves social conservatives and ignored their more secular bretheren in the former Reagan coalition guaranteed McCain nomination by backing Huckabee over Romney. The “reach across he aisle” has merely become a “reach around.” Blaming Palin because McCain ignored the base when he wasn’t kicking us in the nuts is the stupid.
